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One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency. Lynn Coady
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Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. Charles Spurgeon
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism. Denis Diderot
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead. Elbert Hubbard
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A creed is an ossified metaphor.
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Theology is Classified Superstition.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words. Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Never f*!k with the ineffable. Terry Pratchett
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Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable. Rebecca Solnit
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely. Katie Featherston
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Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands. Shea Hembrey
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It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also. Edgar Mitchell
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Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience. Aldous Huxley
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself. Anthony de Mello
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I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from. Debbie Harry
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time. Bill Viola
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Even though drug mysticism is a vulgarization of the real thing, I think it made me come to terms with my own religious impulses. Robert Stone
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Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic. Jan Morris