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“Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.”

Humans Ends Atheism Tears Comfort Promise Worship Contrary Priests Affliction Woe Deities Altars Coffins Annihilation Another Life Incense

Author:François-René de Chateaubriand

“Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.”

World Giving Humans Atheism Promise Limits Claims Absolutes Remains Errors Possession Positive Atheism Human Experience Heresy Transcendent Absolute Truth

Book:An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.”

Atheism Victory Promise Positive Atheism Despite Inevitable Bliss Heavenly Solace Seductive Hypocritical

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.”

Knows Belief Atheism Promise Illusion Positive Atheism This Life Vain Immortality Reasonable Here And Now Skeptic

Book:The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal

Source: The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal

“Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.”

Men Needs Self Desire Values Hate Loses Break Atheism Wall Promise Thee Curse Self Respect Suspects Curtains Thyself Profitable Hypocrite

Book:沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

Source: 沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

“I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.”

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Author:Matthew Yglesias

“He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.”

Men Dream Reality Religion Imagination Vision Atheism Stage Higher Involved Promise God Love Ecstasy Kill Me Great Hope Novices

Author:Voltaire

“Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.”

Humans Atheism Promise Atheist Deny Oath Covenant Human Society God Promises

Book:Locke: Political Writings

Source: Locke: Political Writings