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    To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.

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    To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

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    To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

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    to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

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    To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

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    To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

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    To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

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    To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

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    To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.

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    To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

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    To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

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    To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

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    To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

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    To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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    To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

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    [To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?

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    Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

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    To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

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    True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

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    True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

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    True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

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    True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

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    True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind.

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    True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

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    True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

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    True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

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    To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

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    True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

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    Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

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    Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

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    Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

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    Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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    Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

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    Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

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    Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

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    Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

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    Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

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    Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

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    unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

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    Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

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    UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!

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    Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

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    Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.

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    Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

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    Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

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    Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings.

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    We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.

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    Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

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    We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about "everything that is," for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a "planetary agenda" for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise.

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    Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.