Annie Laurie Gaylor quotes
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“The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.”
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“Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.”
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“It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.”
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“Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world”
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“Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .”
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“Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.”
-- Annie Laurie Gaylor
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“Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.”
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Source : "Our Enemy, The State". Book by Albert Jay Nock, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Press, 1950.
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