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Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish."

— Chapman Cohen

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Granting that an illusion may have its uses, it can only be of service so long as we do not know it to be an illusion.

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Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear‐cut issues and unambiguous speech.

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The average man is happier in the wrong with a crowd, than he is in the right with only one or two companions.

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