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God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

John Stuart Mill
Atheist, Ideas, Religion

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

John Stuart Mill
Religion, Ornaments, Would Be
John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.20, 谷月社

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

John Stuart Mill
Religious, Evil, Religion
"Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography".

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

John Stuart Mill
Religion, Might, Deities
John Stuart Mill (2008). “Three Essays on Religion”, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

John Stuart Mill
Religion, Atheism, Facts
John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.452, OUP Oxford

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

John Stuart Mill
Religious, Tolerance, Religion
John Stuart Mill (2016). “On Liberty: Mill's Works”, p.17, VM eBooks

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