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"The more unnatural anything is, the more it is capable of becoming the object of dismal admiration."
"The more unnatural anything is, the more it is capable of becoming the object of dismal admiration."
"My own mind is my own church. 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."
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“Common Sense is not so common” said Voltaire to Nielsen.
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“Common Sense is not so common” said Voltaire to Nielsen.
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil..."
-- Common Sense, Thomas Paine
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pickThis is absolutely fantastic, and another book I wish I would've read in high school or early college years when my belief in religion was teetering and could've used a push to get me to where I am today. The great 18th-century American patriot and deist Thomas Paine was ahead of his time, he was an enlightened soul along the lines of the the great Scotsman David Hume when it came to absolutely dismantling the tenets of religions.
