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“Isn’t it ironic that religious freedom comes precisely from secularism, that is, from vetoing the intrusion of religion into politics?”

— Paulo Bittencourt Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist (2023)

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“Either God is love or he is not. If he is love, he cannot punish his creatures just for not believing in him.”

Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist (2023)

“I don’t want to believe, I want to know.”

Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist (2023)

“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)

“Next to the history of Christianity, the scariest horror movie is comedy.”

Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist (2023)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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