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'HOLBACHIf the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
More Baron d'Holbach Quotes
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The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
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If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.
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Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination.
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The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.
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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense, an uninterrupted succession of causes and effects.
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Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven’s cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.
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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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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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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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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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