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Don't you wish you knew.



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"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural--that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world--not even in infinite space. I was free--free to think, to express my thoughts--free to live to my own ideal--free to live for myself and those I loved--free to use all my faculties, all my senses--free to spread imagination's wings--free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope--free to judge and determine for myself--free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past--free from popes and priests--free from all the "called" and "set apart"--free from sanctified mistakes and holy lies--free from the fear of eternal pain--free from the winged monsters of the night--free from devils, ghosts and gods. For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of thought--no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings--no chains for my limbs--no lashes for my back--no fires for my flesh--no master's frown or threat--no following another's steps--no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words. I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds.



And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain--for the freedom of labor and thought--to those who fell on the fierce fields of war, to those who died in dungeons bound with chains--to those who proudly mounted scaffold's stairs--to those whose bones were crushed, whose flesh was scarred and torn--to those by fire consumed--to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still."





--Robert Ingersoll



"I contend that we are both Atheists. I just believe in one fewer God than you do. When you realize and understand why you dismiss all of the other possible Gods, you will realize and understand why I dismiss yours."



--Stephen Roberts



"Power corrupts;

Absolute power corrupts absolutely;

God is all-powerful.

Draw your own conclusions"



--Unknown



"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy."



-- David Brooks



"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."



--Benjamin Franklin



"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of."



--Mark Twain



"There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages."



--Richard Lederer



"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations."



--Buddha



"I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies."



--Albert Einstein



"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?"



--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



"If someone is bothering you, politely ask them to stop. If they don't stop, destroy them!"



--Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible