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“If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.”

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Suetonius (70-130 AD), a renowned Roman historian, is best known for his works 'The Lives of the Twelve Caesars' and 'The Lives of the Roman Emperors'. His writings provide detailed descriptions of the early Roman Empire's emperors. more

“I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.”

“A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men of extreme, illogical views will interpret 'God's will' in eccentric fashion. Kindly, charitable, generous men will interpret 'God's will' according to their character.”

Men Mind Character Views Fashion Extremes Gods Will Generous Sober Fanatics Eccentric Charitable Illogical Generous Man

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.”

America Religious Land Elements Abuse England Refuse Ignorant Fanatics Undesirable Religious Fanatics Mayflower

Author:Frank Zappa

“In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.”

Ifs Men Age Culture Found Moral Support Mankind Morality Demand Achievement Arise Immorality Susceptibility

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.”

Men Suffering Common Fate Tasks Terror Cruelty Civilized Reconcile

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“God - but a word invoked to explain the world.”

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Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.”

Loses Praying Our Time Imaginary Exertion

Author:Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

“Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.”

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