It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty. (Steve Allen)

It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty.

Steve Allen

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