Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
Baron d'HolbachCan theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?
Baron d'HolbachThe atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
Baron d'HolbachIt is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
Baron d'HolbachGod, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed, he desires to enlighten by his special grace. What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?
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