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- From: robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas)
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- Subject: Re: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.
- Date: 5 Jan 93 09:58:50
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- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
- Voltaire, Epitre a l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs [November 10, 1770]
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- It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe
- there are.
- Ovid, Ars Amatoria I, 637.
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- If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made
- for the use and benefit of men.
- John Tillotson, Sermon.
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