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Quotes from Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker — Paulo Bittencourt

b. 1966

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“Any ideology that threatens with punishment those who reject it is perverse and deserves to be rejected.”

Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker (2022)

“Religion is the illusion of having answers to questions to which no one has answers.”

Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker (2022)

“There is no greater pleasure than to be a freethinker.”

Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker (2022)

“Where there is no reflection, there is manipulation.”

Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker (2022)

“Some more than others, but all religions are dictatorships of thought, because they dictate how their adherents must think, what they can accept and what they must reject.”

Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker (2022)

“One of the principal reasons why so many people believe the evidently fantastic stories of the Bible is the fact that it’s an ancient book. If it had been written these days, an overwhelming majority would not think twice before considering it a work of fiction.”

Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker (2022)

“How many pieces of evidence are needed to recognize that the Creator of the Universe either doesn’t exist or doesn’t give a damn about his creation? For me, one is sufficient: churches that collapse on believers during worship service.”

Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker (2022)

“If Humanity can be saved and this Pale Blue Dot transformed into a really good place to live, at least without poverty and wars, then not by people who see life as worthless and spend it dreaming of mansions of gold in an imaginary world, but by people who don’t flee from reality and are guided not by primitive mythological beings, but by reason: freethinkers.”

Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker (2022)

“I’m not against God existing. I just have no reasons to believe that he exists. Believing is not a virtue. I’m not able to accept incoherences, nor do I know why I should. If what is incoherent deserves to be rejected, how much more what is perverse!”

Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker (2022)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paulo Bittencourt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.