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Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying "Hate if you Love Jesus", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

— Simon Blackburn Think (1999)

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But if nothing does as well as something about which nothing can be said, it vanishes.

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A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

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