1. he lost his faith but not his morality
1. "religious"
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Chris Hedges, Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
2. "Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful."
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Martin Amis, The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11
3. "We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science."
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
4. "Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force."
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Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
5. "Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived."
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Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
6. "The religious freedom promoted by Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Religious Right of Ken Ham and Tony Perkins is a fraud and a scam; it is antithetical to true freedom of conscience and belief."
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Barry W. Lynn, God and Government: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality
7. "The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship."
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Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
8. "All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism"
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Quote by Jon Krakauer
9. "Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief."
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Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
10. "Today, in the West, there are no good excuses for religious belief - unless we think that ignorance, reaction, and sentimentality are good excuses."
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Martin Amis, The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11