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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.

And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.