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Atatürk

,

Kemal

1881-1938

,
Freethinker
...on
Atheism and Deism

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea.  He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.  My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates to truth, and the teachings of science … Superstition must go.

founder and first president of the modern state of Turkey, quoted in Andrew Mango, Atatürk: the biography of the founder of modern Turkey

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