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The man who has allowed his mental capacities to clear his way through the dense underbrush of religious dogma finds that he has emerged into a purer and healthier atmosphere.
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In the bright light of this mental emancipation a man perceives the falsities of all religions in their historic, scientific, and metaphysical aspects.
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"The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live."
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Religion has always aimed to smooth the sufferer's passage to the next world, not to save him for this world.
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what men have hitherto attributed to the gods are nothing but the ideals they value and grope for in themselves
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Just as the fundamental principle of justice is outraged when a man or an institution is condemned by jurist or popular opinion when an opportunity is not given to present the facts on both aspects of the case, just so is no man justified in making a decision between theism and atheism until he becomes acquainted with both sides of the controversy.
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