""Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion."

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Source : Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

Jim Herrick

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“It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.”

Source : Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.44, 1st World Publishing
“Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesnt such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?”
“Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?”
“You can only learn what obedience is by obeying”
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
“Heroes come along when you need them.”
“You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'.”
“A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.”

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