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Charles Darwin said:
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us, and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
Kurt Vonnegut said:
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."
Gloria Steinem said:
"By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God."
Baruch Spinoza said:
"Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for ecclesiastics."
Further, Beethoven shunned religion and scorned the clergy. Abraham Lincoln never joined a church, and once wrote a skeptical treatise which friends burned in a stove to save him from wrecking his political career. And the motto of Margaret Sanger's birth-control newsletter was: "No gods, no masters."
Bright minds throughout history have doubted supernatural gods, devils, heavens, hells, miracles and the rest of church dogmas. Today's freethinkers can be proud to share this fine heritage, which sparkles with higher intelligence.
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(Sources of quotes)
Thomas Jefferson - letter to Correa de Serra, April 11, 1820.
Albert Einstein - New York Times commentary, Nov. 9, 1930.
Emily Bronte - No Coward Soul, January 1846.
Sigmund Freud - letter to Charles Singer.
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