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How can we admit that the divine became an embryo, and that after its birth, it was wrapped in swaddling clothes, covered with blood, bile, and even worse things?

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The utility of a science which enables men to take cognizance of the travellers on the mind's highway, and excludes those disorderly interlopers, verbal fallacies, needs but small attestation.

Things essentially incorporeal, because they are more excellent than all body and place, are every where, not with interval, but impartibly.

Every good thing is gentle and consistent, progressing in good order and not going beyond what is right.

The fleshless diet contributes to health and to a suitable endurance of hard work in philosophy.

Soul, indeed, is a certain medium between an impartible essence, and an essence which is divisible about bodies.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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