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As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
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God save our gracious Queen: Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
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Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme Deity.
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
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Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
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Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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