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“all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.”

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Author:Mary Martha Sherwood

“Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.”

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Author:Francois Rabelais

“The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.”

“There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.”

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Book:Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

Source: Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

“If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add weapons of mass destruction to this diabolical clockwork, and you have . . . a recipe for the fall of civilization.”

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Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.”

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Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.”

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Author:Kerry Thornley

“Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”

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Author:Robert Anton Wilson