Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
Mama, you don__ understand. It__ all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don__ acept. It__ not important. I am not going out and commit crimes or be immoral because I don__ believe in God. I don__ even think about it. It__ just that I get so tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no God! There is only Man, and it__ he who makes miracles!
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Mama, you don__ understand. It__ all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don__ acept. It__ not important. I am not going out and commit crimes or be immoral because I don__ believe in God. I don__ even think about it. It__ just that I get so tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no God! There is only Man, and it__ he who makes miracles!
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Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling.