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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Carl Jung Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge.
Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and you have the history of another world and of another race.
Mark Hopkins Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
All religions, with their gods, demigods, prophets, messiahs and saints, are the product of the fancy and credulity of men who have not yet reached the full development and complete possession of their intellectual powers.
We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States, and you know it, and that is all.
Struggle against it as thou wilt, yet Heaven's ways are Heaven's ways.
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The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
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