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Gage, Matilda Joslyn

"The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it."
["Woman, Church and State, 1893]

Galilei, Galileo

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use."

"Having been admonished by this Holy Office [the Inquisition] entirely to
abandon the false opinion that the Sun was the center of the universe and
immovable, and that the Earth was not the center of the same and that it
moved... I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and
detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error
and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church."
[Recantation, 22 June 1633]

Gandhi, Mahatma

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians, Your Christians are so unlike your Christ"

Goethe
"As man is
So is his God;
And thus is God
Oft strangely odd."

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