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“Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.”

Giving Has Beens Stills Cities Atheism Destruction Metaphor Positive Atheism Believer Vengeance Offended Jerusalem Unbelievers

Book:Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

Source: Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

“Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.”

Trying Use Force Virtue Atheism Hero Destruction Metaphor Jew Positive Atheism Profession Bars Irrational

Author:Florence King

“Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things improved since. The blood-soaked history of persecution, torture, murder, and destruction perpetrated in the name of religion is difficult to grasp, let alohne summarize, from the slaughter of Christians to the Crusades to the Inquisitiion to the Reformation to the European witchcraze to colonialization to today's bitter coflict in the Middle East.”

“Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.”

People Ifs Humans Made Reason Form Cities Compassion Atheism Land Destruction Positive Atheism Cruelty Insult Display Devoted Deities Solemn Oath Pact Human Cruelty

Author:Ernest Renan

“Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.”

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Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”

Character Fall Atheism Destruction Positive Atheism Suspicion Disintegration

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.”

Years Said War Religion Religious Sun Atheism Destruction Indian Temples Jealous Idols Persecution Egyptian Tribunals Religious Wars Religious Persecution

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.”

“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.”

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Author:Brian Aldiss

“Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism, and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens Matter States Evil Names Causes Atheism Revolution Terrible Destruction Ruins France Indifference Forty Catholicism Believe In Me Legislation Maxims Pernicious Communes

Author:Pope Pius IX