George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Atheism
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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