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“When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.”

Way Results Successful Failing Atheism Tests Scientist Claims Originals Dare Positive Atheism Arguing Experiments Fantastic Repeats Flaws Criticize Competence Replication

Author:Martin Gardner

“One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.”

Men Mother Race Mistake Atheism Originals Positive Atheism Accepted Servant

Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

“The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.”

Sin Atheism Originals Positive Atheism Disappear Theology Doctrine Original Sin

Author:Georgia Harkness

“The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.”

“Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place when referring to the original Huxleyan meaning of the term. The use of "rationalist" for "agnostic" would also seem to be less ambiguous.”

Use Seems Term Atheism Originals Positive Atheism Confusion Agnostic Agnosticism Referring Ambiguous Rationalism

Book:An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

Source: An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

“Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.”

Sin Atheism Crime Grew Becoming Originals Victim Misery Positive Atheism Doctrine Delusion Helpless Witchcraft Celibacy Original Sin Asceticism

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.”

Humans May Littles Culture Given Numbers Atheism Theory Reader Limits Originals Intention Positive Atheism Criticize Modest Justified Positively Memes

Book:A Devil's Chaplain

Source: A Devil's Chaplain

“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.”

“The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.”

“Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout my years in science. Whenever one of my students came to me with a scientific project, I asked only one question, 'Will it bring you nearer to God?'”

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Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi

“A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.”

Believe Self Action Form Law Written Atheism Creation Divine Development Capable Originals Noble Conception Void Self Development Deities Agnosticism

Book:On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

“A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning "merit" or in being saved by priestly incantation.”

Source: The Book of Ammon

“The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”

Reality Age Atheism Illusion Essence Originals Sacred Appearance Positive Atheism These Days Fancy Copies Profane

Book:The essence of Christianity

Source: The essence of Christianity