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01Undated

The main causes for divorceare marriages.

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02Undated

On the sixth day god created man,on the seventh day man created god.Now we are even.

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03Undated

Did god make man too perfect,So that a piece has to be removedthrough circumcision?

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04Undated

Nothing remains the same.The only thing that never changesis the fact that everything changes.

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05Undated

It's time to demand that the faithful keep their personal choices, preferences and beliefs in irrational and sometimes dangerous things strictly private. Everyone is absolutely free to believe what they want, provided they do not harass others (or force, or kill them) .. But nobody has the right to insist on privileges simply because they are supporters of one or other of the world's many religions."From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"('Scourges of an imaginary god')

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06Undated

The bullshit detector is the biggest enemyof every religion."From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"('Scourges of an imaginary god')

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07Undated

The moment that all these myths were brought together in so-called 'holy books'has -without any doubt- to be seenas the most disastrous point in timein the history of mankind.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god)

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08Undated

From history books you should at best believe just the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even fabricated.

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09Undated

Don't be sad that it's over.Be glad that you ever lived to see it.

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10Undated

Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god)

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11Undated

Is it too bold to point out that there is nothing in the ten commandmentsabout protecting children against cruelty?Nothing against rape and nothing against slavery,and nothing agains genocide.Could this be because these crimesare positively recommendedin the rest of the bible?

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12Undated

Only those who are brainwashed and foolsbelieve in the existence of a god.Those who are indifferent just pretend.

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13Undated

From bigots who hawk their goddoor-to-door, preserve us.

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14Undated

The purpose of lifeis to give our life purpose.

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15Undated

If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.

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