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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

— Antony Flew

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I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and fear because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam.

Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew (2009)

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

[Still an atheist at the time] For Heaven's sake...sorry, perhaps I should have said something else.

"Do I sincerely want to be right?" Subtitle from first edition

How to Think Straight", 1977, (originally published in the UK as "Thinking About Thinking (1975)

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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