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A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect t...

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fi...

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and b...

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to b...

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays