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Connie was a self-described atheist, and her professional life was steeped in the sciences. My life was devoted to religion. Our union embraces both.

— Michael Dowd Thank God for evolution! (2007)

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I dedicate this book to the glory of God.

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Denial gets a bad wrap, because denial is instinctual.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Simone Weil Last Notebook (1942)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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