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"Religious man" is an abnormality and "religion" is the certain cause of epidemic diseases of the mind which require the care of alienists.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
The struggle against the religious absurdity is more than ever a necessity today.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
Religion is a psychic disease of the brain.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
The history of many saints, beatified by the church, is repugnant. It shows nothing more than a profound aberration of the human spirit in search of ultra-terrestrial chimeras.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
Religious morality shows the original stigmata of authoritarianism precisely because it pretends to be the revelation of divine authority.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
The Bible and morals called Christian are two cadavers.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
How can the idea of a creator be reconciled with the existence of dwarfed and atrophied organs, with anomalies and monstrosities, with the existence of pain, perpetual and universal, with the struggle and the inequalities among human beings?
God Does Not Exist (1904)
If today the Middle Ages are retiring into the thick shadows of convents, it is due to triumphant skepticism; and if the epidemic disease of religion no longer appears with the terrible intensity of former times, it is due to the diminution of the political power of the Church.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
With each new discovery of chemistry, physics, biology, the anthropological sciences, of the practical application of sound principles, dogma collapses. It is a part of that old edifice of religion which crumbles and falls in ruins.
God Does Not Exist (1904)