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ended God 93. It is not true, that we owe any gratitude to what is called _Providence_ 94. It is folly to suppose that Man is the king of nature, the favourite of God, and unique object of his labours 95. A comparison between Man and brutes 96. There are no animals so detestable as Tyrants 97. A refutation of the excellence of Man 98. An oriental Tale 99. It is madness to see nothing but the goodness of God, or to think that this universe is only made for Man 100. What is the Soul? 101. The existence of a _Soul_ is an absurd supposition; and the existence of an _immortal_ Soul still more absurd 102. It is evident that Man dies _in toto_ 103. Incontestible arguments against the Spirituality of the Soul 104. On the absurdity of the supernatural causes, to which Theologians are constantly having recourse 105, 106. It is false that Materialism degrades 107. The idea of a future life is only useful to those, who trade on public credulity 108. It is false that the idea of a future life is consoling 109. All religious principles are derived from the imagination. God is a chimera; and the qualities, attributed to him, reciprocally destroy one another 110. Religion is but a system imagined in order to reconcile contradictions by the aid of mysteries 111, 112, 113. Absurdity and inutility of all Mysteries, which were only invented for the interests of Priests 114. An universal God ought to have revealed an universal Religion 115. What proves, that Religion is unnecessary, is, that it is unintelligible 116. All Religions are rendered ridiculous by the multitude of creeds, all opposite to one another, and all equally foolish 117. Opinion of a famous Theologian 118. The God of the Deists is not less contradictory, nor less chimerical than the God of the Christians 119. It by no means proves the existence of God to say, that, in every age, all nations have acknowledged some Deity or other 120. All Gods are of a savage origin: all Religions are monuments of the ignorance, superstition, and ferocity of former times: modern Religions are but ancient follies, re-edited with additions and corrections 121. All religious usages bear marks of stupidity and barbarism
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