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to priest's trade 108. It is false that the idea of a future life is consoling 109. All religious principles are derived from the imagination 110. Religion a system to reconciles contradictions by mysteries 111. Absurdity of all Mysteries, invented for the interests of Priests 112, Absurdity of all Mysteries, invented for the interests of Priests 113. Absurdity of all Mysteries, invented for the interests of Priests 114. An universal God ought to have revealed an universal Religion 115. Religion is unnecessary, as it is unintelligible 116. All Religions are rendered ridiculous by the multitude of creeds 117. Opinion of a famous Theologian 118. The God of the Deists is not less contradictory 119. Aged belief in a Deity does not prove the existence of God 120. All Gods are savage: all Religions are monuments of ignorance 121. All religious usages bear marks of stupidity and barbarism 122. The more a religion is ancient and general, the more suspect 123. Scepticism in religious matters from very superficial study 124. Revelations examined 125. Where is the proof that God ever shewed himself or spoke to Men 126. There is nothing that proves miracles to have been ever performed 127. Strange that God spoke differently to different sects 128. Obscurity and suspicious origin of oracles 129. Absurdity of all miracles 130. Refutation of the reasoning of Pascal on miracles 131. Every new revelation is necessarily false 132. Blood of martyrs testifies _against_ the truth of miracles 133. Fanaticism of martyrs, and the interested zeal of missionaries 134. Theology makes its God an enemy to Reason and Common Sense 135. Faith irreconcilable with Reason; and Reason preferable to Faith 136. To what absurd and ridiculous sophisms the religious are reduced 137. Ought a man to believe, on the assurance of another man 138. Faith can take root only in feeble, ignorant, or slothful minds 139. That one Religion has greater pretensions to truth an absurdity 140. Religion is unnecessary to Morality 141. Religion the weakest barrier that can be opposed to the passions 142. Honour is a more salutary and powerful bond than Religion 143. Religion does not restrain the passions of kings 144. Origin of "the divine right of kings" 145. Religion is fatal to political ameliorations 146. Christianity preaching implicit obedience to despotism 147. One object of religious pr
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