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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue...
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It appears as if you were not satisfied in recording our Atheism. You jump to the conclusion that we can have neither love nor respect for mankind, inferring that all those great ideas or emotions which, in all ages, have set hearts throbbing are dead letters to us. Trailing at hazard our miserable existences -- crawling, rather than walking, as you wish to imagine us -- you assume that we cannot know of other feelings than the satisfaction of our coarse and sensual desires.
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A man is a vile and despicable clod
Whose benevolence needs the existence of God;
My sole God is virtue.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. Love, as the basis of life, will bind us together.
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...the Bishop deceives himself by thinking that he governs our actions.
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Religion must conform to morality, and, like it, be universal.
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In fine, I feel that, if I do no evil to my brethren and I respect my master, I shall have nothing to fear, either from Ahriman, or Cerberus, and the Furies, or Satan, or Knatbull, or St. Fiacre and St. Crepin; and I shall end my days in peace and the pursuit of philosophy.
Chronology :
April 13, 2020 : Morality -- Added.
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