Chapman Cohen Quotes

#1. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]

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#2. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

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#3. Worship God. It's easier than thinking.

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#4. If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist - he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

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#5. Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

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#6. It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

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#7. ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

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#8. Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.

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#9. Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

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#10. The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.

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#11. Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

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#12. It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

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#13. If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

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