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There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.

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• History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

  

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• The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

  

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• The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

  

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• There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.

  

  Sam Harris