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Thomas Paine1737–1809

Religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy.

Thomas Paine on atheism

Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity
A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere⁠—‘Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,’ as Herbert says, ‘fine nets and stratagems.’ God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
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If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
Goncourt brothersJanuary 24, 1868; translation from Robert Baldick (ed. and trans.) Pages from the Goncourt Journal (London: Oxford University Press, 1962) p. 135.
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