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Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions.

— Jonathan Miller Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)

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While the early deists were busy reconstructing Christianity, at the same time being very careful to avoid the accusation of atheism, the world of science had been steadily progressing.

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The conspicuous absence of the Twin Towers—involving, as it does, the inherent conflicts between Christianity, Islam and Judaism—is, I think, one of the most powerful expressions of religious fanaticism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Although he never admitted himself to be an atheist as such, he was clearly and unarguably the most vividly elegant and eloquent skeptic of them all. I'm referring, of course, to the great Scottish philosopher David Hume.

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With thoughtfulness—and, above all, with literacy—thoughts themselves become subjects of discussion in a way that they wouldn't have been before they were written down. It's not until they're written down that they become stable enough to bear examination in the same way that physical objects themselves can bear examination.

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