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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Lucretius

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
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
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

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