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“Utter trash. —the Greek intellectual Celsus evaluates the Old Testament”
― Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

“There was, however, one group of people who even the great Galen found himself unable to convince. This was a group who did not form their beliefs by basing them on experiments or on observations, but on faith alone—and who, worse still, were actually proud of this fact. These peculiar people were for Galen the epitome of intellectual dogmatism. When he wished to adequately convey the blockheadedness of another group of physicians, Galen used these people as an analogy to express the depths of his irritation. They were the Christians.”
― Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

“La falta de educación, sostenía Celso, hacía que los oyentes fueran vulnerables al dogma. Si los cristianos hubieran leído un poco más y creyeran un poco menos, sería menos probable que se consideraran únicos.”
― Catherine Nixey, La edad de la penumbra: Cómo el cristianismo destruyó el mundo clásico

“As billionaire investor Warren Buffett famously put it: “Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.”
― Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche