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Michael
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Good Sense
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Theology is ignorance of natural causes; a tissue of fallacies and contradictions.
“It is impossible to be happy, while always trembling. Ye devout! you adore a terrible God! But you hate him; you would be glad, if he did not exist. Can we refrain from desiring the absence or destruction of a master, the idea of whom destroys our happiness?”
― Good Sense
― Good Sense
“Laws are made with a view to maintain society; to uphold its existence; to prevent man associated, from injuring his neighbour; they are therefore competent to punish those who disturb its harmony, or those who commit actions that are injurious to their fellows;”
― The System of Nature
― The System of Nature
“It will no doubt be argued, that as Nature contains and produces intelligent beings, either she must be herself intelligent, or else she must be governed by an intelligent cause.”
― The System of Nature
― The System of Nature
“The doctrine of spirituality, such as it now exists, offers nothing but vague ideas; or rather is the absense of all ideas.”
― The System of Nature
― The System of Nature
“The Atheist reasons: he consults experience, which he prefers to prejudice. If he reasons justly, his conscience is enlightened; he finds more real motives to do good than the bigot whose only motives are his fallacies, and who never listens to reason.”
― Good Sense
― Good Sense
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