Good Sense by baron d' Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
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184. Can we, and ought we, to love God?
185. God and Religion are proved to be absurdities by the different ideas formed of them 186. The existence of God, which is the basis of Religion, has not yet been demonstrated 187. Priests are more actuated by self-interest, than unbelievers 188. Pride, presumption, and badness, are more often found in priests, than in Atheists 189. Prejudices last but for a time: no power is durable which is not founded upon truth 190. What an honourable power ministers of the Gods would obtain, if they became the apostles of reason and the defenders of liberty! 191. What a glorious and happy revolution it would be for the world, if Philosophy were substituted for Religion! 192. The recantation of an unbeliever at the point of death proves nothing against the reasonableness of unbelief 193. It is not true that Atheism breaks the bonds of society 194. Refutation of the often repeated opinion, that Religion is necessary for the vulgar |
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