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I can’t tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.
“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
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