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“The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.”

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Lucretius

Lucretius (99 BC - 55 BC) was a renowned Greek Roman poet, hailed as the peak of Greek Roman philosophical poetry. His work 'On the Nature of Things' presented the natural philosophical ideas of the Greek philosopher Democritus in poetic form, which had a profound impact on later generations. more

“I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.”

World Book Feelings Religion Belief Sacred Etc Tyrants Trusted Rainbow Towers Testament World History Old Testament Barbarians Babel Revengeful Tower Of Babel

Author:Charles Darwin

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842

“The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, - that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, - that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eye-witnesses; - by such reflections as these... I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.”

Source: Autobiographies

“Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.”

Religion Sex Atheism Position Abstinence

Author:Richard Dawkins

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