H. L. Mencken Quotes About Atheist
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.
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Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.
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