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Joseph Addison

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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Joseph Addison is saying that believing there is no god takes much more faith than accepting the important truths that atheism rejects. He suggests that accepting those great truths is easier and requires less belief than the complete disbelief atheism demands.

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