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George Orwell:
"One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one�s intelligence."
"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
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Frederick Nietzsche
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
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Robert Owen (1771-1858) British reformer
"Thus I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity -- not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour -- but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good."
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Thomas Paine:
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be true.
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication. After this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner, for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Two from Arthur C Clarke
"Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. I can only surmise that Mr Clarke has not completed his homework on this topic...Whilst I fully comprehend his clubbing Buddhism, as a religion, together with the others, its singular lack of a God makes it quite unlike them. Additionally, could I also point out that Buddhism leaves nothing to "chance". Just my two cents'/rupees' worth.... 
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Ok, but we did the C's two weeks ago!
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I know, but dyslexya is so liberating....!! 
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(and my surname begins with a 'P'..... )
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I know, but dyslexya is so liberating....!! Dyslexia huh? Do you belong to the ADN? The National Dyslexia Association?
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