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“This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.”

Men Way Has Beens Passion Evil Atheism Source Safety Positive Atheism Temptation Insulting Coarse Valve

Book:Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History

Source: Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History

“The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.”

Firsts Littles Ends School Church Atheism Youth Comfort Safety Quests Typical Safety First

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.”

May Political Loss Greater Wise Atheism Danger Gains Safety Foolish Suppression Political Freedom Gains And Losses

Author:Alexander Meiklejohn

“The real conflict in the abortion issue is between a value - the right to choose whether or not to have the child - and a moral dictum - don't kill other humans. The more here, even, is flexible and relative. "Thou shall not kill" really means, "don't kill productive, contributing members of your own society that aren't a threat to your safety." If it was not relative, then no "Judeo-Christian" person could ever go to war or execute someone.”

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Author:Morris Sullivan

“One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.”

Ifs Seems Would Be Grows Atheism Mankind Safety Faults Fancy Wrath Indignation Contention Fervor Zealot Fierceness Irreligion

Author:Joseph Addison

“It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.”

“Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.”

Reason Fear Atheism Limits Tools Opposites Safety Rage Surrender Being True Rejects Strict Retreat Freethinker Great Escape

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.”

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Book:Afterwards

Source: Afterwards