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The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.

Baron d'Holbach

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
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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Atheist Children Ideas
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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Atheism Religious Tolerance
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
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
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power.
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Desire Independent Thinking
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination.
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Giving Nature Science Up
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
People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn’t it be better to depend on blind matter… than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent.
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Death People Punishment
The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
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Ignorance Nature People
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
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Atheist Men Race
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
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
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for some of her productions. In the eyes of Nature, however, the oyster that vegetates at the bottom of the sea is as dear and perfect as the proud biped who devours it.
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Eye Mean Pride
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?
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Giving Ideas Men

The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.

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