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“Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.”

Men Should Purpose Left Atheism Citizens Conscience Constitution Positive Atheism Desirable Conquest

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.”

Men Left Happened Atheism

Book:Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot

Source: Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot

“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.”

Matter Government Purpose Individual Left Sides Religious Prayer Taken Atheism Citizens Exercise Conscience Function Mere Positive Atheism Instance Sole Secular Acknowledgment

Author:Barbara Brandriff Crabb

“There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.”

Humans Left Destiny Atheism Worship Notion Positive Atheism Dues Obedience Unseen

Book:A Common Faith

Source: A Common Faith

“At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.”

Knows Jesus Left Air Atheism Praying Positive Atheism Chamber Knocking

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”

People Mind Believe Names Belief Left Atheism Dangerous Tvs Behavior Killing Everyday Positive Atheism Believer Bombs Fundamentalist Belief In God Psychotic Dogmatic

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”

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