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“The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.”

Quote by Bartolome de las Casas

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Bartolome de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish historian, theologian, and anti-slavery activist. Born on November 11, 1484, and died on July 18, 1566, he is known for his records of the suffering of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and his criticism of slavery. more

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“Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues.”

People Today Christian Community Numbers Lord Atheism Band Areas Slavery Remains League Thirty Native Survivor Dominion

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.”

Children Christian Mother Atheism Thousand Eating Consequence Died Twenties Killing Hunger Positive Atheism Locals Thirty Nicaragua Maize

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.”

People Ifs World Kind May Hands Christian Asks Imagination Poor Hell Atheism Reader Terrible Devil Injustice Positive Atheism Cruelty New World Poor People Beggar Masquerade

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.”

World Writing Helping Order Dies Christ Sin Millions Atheism Ignorance Positive Atheism Saved New World Knowledge Of God

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.”

World Giving Humans Atheism Promise Limits Claims Absolutes Remains Errors Possession Positive Atheism Human Experience Heresy Transcendent Absolute Truth

Book:An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us, not one could be the citizen of a government so constituted; for Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, certainly the three mightiest leaders in our early history, were heretics in their day, Deists, as men called them; and Garrison and Lincoln and Sumner, certainly the three mightiest in these later times, would all be disfranchised by the proposed amendment. Lincoln could not have taken the oath of office had such a clause been in the Constitution.”

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Author:John Chadwick

“Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.”

May Doe Atheism Effects Judging Argument Atheist Refuse Positive Atheism Doctrine Tendencies Proven Positively Verdict Theist

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.”

Ifs Knows Wells Long I Can Light Happens Remember Turns Atheism Okay Positive Atheism Things Happen Agnostic Turned Off

Author:John Chancellor

“When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.”

Trying Said Atheism Fool Beats Creator Positive Atheism

Book:Past imperfect

Source: Past imperfect

“The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.”

Universe Atheism Extraordinary Positive Atheism Masterpiece

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton