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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His ow

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. – H.L. Mencken

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Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. – H.L. Mencken

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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. – H.L. Mencken

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So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you. – Jesus Christ

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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. – Imamu Amiri Baraka

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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. – Ben Kingsley

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All men have need of the gods. – Homer

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