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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

[1809-1849] American writer

"The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind." Ira D. Cardiff, What Great Men Think of Religion, quoted from James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Di

"No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter ... than you and I; and all religion ... is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry." Rufus K. Noyes, Views of Religion, quoted from James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief