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The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals.

Baron d'Holbach

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
BARON D'HOLBACH

Atheist Men Race
Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.
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Bound Man Leave Nature Spirit Vain Work
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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Atheist Ignorance Knowledge
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Atheism Atheist Ignorance
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
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Atheist Inspirational Life
You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?
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Desire Free Think Volition
The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals.
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Animal Christian Son
All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.
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Men Religious World
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.
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Atheism Atheist Religion
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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Men Superstitions Vanity
The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.
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Appetite God Immortaed Sanguinary Savage Thousand
The Jupiter of the Pagans is a lascivious monster. The Moloch of the Phoenicians is a cannibal. The pure mind of the Christians resolved, in order to appease his fury, to crucify his own son.
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Christian Crucufy Jupiter Monster Phonecian Resolve
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
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Blood Selfish War
The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
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Ignorance Nature People
Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes.
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Examination Example Excessive Prevent Religious
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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Atheism Religious Tolerance

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