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So much wrong could religion induce.

Lucretius

If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur

So much wrong could religion induce.

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