Quote by Samuel Butler
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian r

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. – Samuel Butler

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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Excess
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. – Bertrand Russell

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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. – E. O. Wilson

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The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. – John Paul Stevens

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. – Louis Aragon

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