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Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.

— Kage Baker Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

Sky Coyote (1999)

Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!

Sky Coyote (1999)

Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?

The Graveyard Game (2001)

When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

Sky Coyote (1999)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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