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I can’t tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.
“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
“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
“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
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
― Wealth, War and Wisdom
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
― Wealth, War and Wisdom
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