![I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-have-met-some-highly-intelligent-believers-but-history-has-no-record-to-say-th.jpg)
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