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“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

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“The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.”

Law Heaven Virtue Atheism Mankind Movement Ordinary Regard Misery Positive Atheism Comets Laws Of Motion

Author:Pierre Bayle

“It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for mankind.”

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Book:Honoring the Self

Source: Honoring the Self

“It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.”

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Book:The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions

Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions

“In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.”

War Causes Religious Atheism Century Worship Regard Constant Various Positive Atheism Factors Wicked Hateful Pious Jerusalem Agitation Infidel Unifying Religious Wars

Book:Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

Source: Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

“Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.”

Atheism Regard Positive Atheism Theologian Criteria

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.”

Doe Seems Atheism Evidence Regard Positive Atheism Immortality Topics

Book:The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton

Source: The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton

“Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.”

Doe Church Atheism Teaching Evolution Authority Research Regard Positive Atheism Doctrine Discussion

Author:Pope Pius XII

“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”

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Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account this richer meaning, the Establishment Clause, in banning laws that concern religion, especially prohibits those that pay homage to religion.”

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Author:John Paul Stevens

“To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.”

Mind Christ Atheism Praying Regard Positive Atheism Sacrilege

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors.... Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow cast a slur upon his father who scratched the ground with a wooden one? I do not consider that an invention by the son is a slander upon the father; I regard each invention simply as an improvement; and every father should be exceedingly proud of an ingenious son. If Mr. Talmage has a son, it will be impossible for him to honor his father except by differing with him.”

Source: Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage

“For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Years Atheism Evidence Claims Stress Regard Extraordinary Positive Atheism Ufo

Book:Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, taught in our theological seminaries, proclaimed as God's law in our temples of worship, let us by all means call a council of women in New York, and give it one more revision from the woman's standpoint.”

“The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.”

“Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.”

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

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Book:Rights of Man

Source: Rights of Man

“The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.”

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Author:Robert Trivers

“To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!”

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Author:Andre Breton

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