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“But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition.”

Ifs Men Hands Spiritual Ignorance Worship Intellectual Sight Bottom Creator Faculty Superstitions Occult Dogmatic Fetish Veneration Narrow Mindedness Power Of Nature

Book:Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

Source: Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.”

Ifs Men Stills Would Be Christian Religion Jesus Names Taken Atheism Ignorance Horror Worship Sensible Seriousness Sects Worship God Synonym Carnage

Author:Voltaire

“We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.”

Ifs Light Would Be Found Ignorance Shapes Worship Intellectual Nonsense Ads Nevertheless Propositions Galaxy Unlikely Improbable Neutrality Meticulous

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.”

Mystery Ignorance Worship Sacred

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.”

Ifs Men Religion Order Imagination Ignorance Worship Weakness Atheist Profit Favors Tyranny Deception Customs Spares Blindness Rapture Ignorance And Fear

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”

“Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.”

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Book:The Gods, and Other Lectures

Source: The Gods, and Other Lectures

“To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.”

Knows Wisdom Law Wonderful Atheism Ignorance Degrees Worship Appreciate Grateful Acceptable Majesty

Author:Nicolaus Copernicus