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“Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.”

Book:Atheism: The Case Against God

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Atheism: The Case Against God

This book delves into various philosophical and scientific arguments that challenge the belief in a divine being. more

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George H. Smith

George H. Smith, born on February 10, 1949, is a renowned author whose works span across multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels. more

“We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person "to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion." Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.”

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Author:Hugo Black

“No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.”

May Form Religion Religious Teach Practice Support Atheism Amount Activity Taxes Institutions Church And State Separation Of Church And State Separation Between Church And State

Author:Hugo Black

“The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.”

“It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.”

Impossible Drug Asking Addiction Relief Behaviour Addict

Book:In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Source: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.”

Has Beens Growth Environment Growing Cost Resources Economics Addiction Pollution Exhaustion

Book:Collected Papers: Toward the Twenty-First Century : Political Economy, Social Systems, and World Peace

Source: Collected Papers: Toward the Twenty-First Century : Political Economy, Social Systems, and World Peace

“A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.”

Doe Belief Results Atheism Atheist Disbelief Belief In God Anti Atheist

Author:Arthur Lynch

“The only atheism is the denial of truth.”

Atheism Denial

Book:The rosy fingers: the building forms of thought and action in the new era

Source: The rosy fingers: the building forms of thought and action in the new era

“The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?”

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Book:Thinking about the next war

Source: Thinking about the next war

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