"You don't believe in the devil? Disbelief in the devil is a French notion, a frivolous notion."
Lebedev in The Idiot
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a daily living reproach
which they have before their eyes
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5 comments:
All the successful atheists were French I think...
Successful atheist? Isn't that an oxymoron of sorts?
Indeed it is. I'm glad you picked up the humor.
The greatest trick the Devil has pulled was to get mankind to believe that he does not exist....
...he is a shakkeran and he Av of it. (John 8:44)
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