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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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