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“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.”

Source: Systematic Theology

“The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.”

Ifs Religion Fire Mankind Rain Destruction Fundamentals Gods Will Tribes Barbarians Vanquish

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.”

Years Made Book Religion Destruction Possession Criminals Destroyed Copies Buried Burned Offense Egypt Monk Jars Banned Monasteries Banned Books

Book:The Gnostic Gospels

Source: The Gnostic Gospels

“If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add weapons of mass destruction to this diabolical clockwork, and you have . . . a recipe for the fall of civilization.”

Ifs Religion Fall Worst Civilization Taste Weapons Mass Evidence Destruction Add Recipes Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Insufficient Clockwork Diabolical

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.”

Mean Has Beens Made Used Religion Teach Morality Mass Destruction Excuse Insight Persecution Hippie Mass Destruction Brotherly Brotherly Love

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.”

Humans Has Beens Facts Mother Religion Human Beings Simple Issues Concerned Destruction Murder Raises Womb Deprived Violation Embryos

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“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.”

Thinking Mean Religion Fantasy Virtue Atheism Mankind Intellectual Destruction Nonsense Bondage Brag Lunacy Slaveholders

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.”

“A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.”

Humans Doe Religion Human Beings Destruction Cease

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”

People Reality Eye Religion Destruction Innocence Invites

Author:James A. Baldwin

“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!”

Ifs Love Feels Ends Desire Religion Order Passion Destruction Aim Noble Monsters Height Torture Folly Madmen Asceticism Zealot

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings