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“Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.”

Needs Belief Bits Blood Terrible Nails Anguish

Book:The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

“It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.”

Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

“Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?”

Men War Whole Religion Belief Nations Blood Europe Filled Torture Ashes Bloody Persecution Infant Men Women Monstrous Assassination

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.”

Knows Men Belief Common Blood He Man Blow Streams Swimming Common Man

Book:The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People

Source: The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People

“Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it.”

Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything