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“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
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And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
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“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
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British Literature
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