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“The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.”

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William Rainey Harper

William Rainey Harper was an American educator born on July 26, 1856, and died on January 10, 1906. He is considered one of the key figures in the development of modern higher education. more

“If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.”

“That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.”

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Book:A child of the century

Source: A child of the century

“The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.”

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Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.”

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Author:Thomas Helwys

“Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”

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Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.”

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“"Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion.”

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Book:Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

Source: Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

“"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."”

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Book:Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

Source: Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

“When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys... The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred... What superstition and fanaticism on every side!”

“Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.”

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