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''See also:'' [[Atheism and satanic deception]] and [[Atheism Quotes]]
''See also:'' [[Atheism and satanic deception]] and [[Atheism Quotes]]
[[File:Charles Baudelaire3.jpg|left|thumbnail|150px|[[Charles Baudelaire]] ]]
[[File:Charles Baudelaire3.jpg|left|thumbnail|150px|[[Charles Baudelaire]] ]]
The [[John the Apostle|Apostle John]] records [[Jesus]] making an allusion to the devil and declaring that he is a thief that comes to rob, kill, and destroy.<ref>John 10:10</ref> Jesus also declares the children of the devil want to carry out their father's wishes and that the devil was a liar and a murderer.<ref>John 8:44</ref>
[[Charles Baudelaire]] expressed a common belief concerning atheism and satanic deception in his short story ''The Generous Gambler'' written in 1864:
[[Charles Baudelaire]] expressed a common belief concerning atheism and satanic deception in his short story ''The Generous Gambler'' written in 1864:
{{cquote|He complained in no way of the evil reputation under which he lived, indeed, all over the world, and he assured me that he himself was of all living beings the most interested in the destruction of [[Superstition]], and he avowed to me that he had been afraid, relatively as to his proper power, once only, and that was on the day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than the rest of the human herd, cry in his pulpit: "My dear brethren, do not ever forget, when you hear the progress of lights praised, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!}}
{{cquote|He complained in no way of the evil reputation under which he lived, indeed, all over the world, and he assured me that he himself was of all living beings the most interested in the destruction of [[Superstition]], and he avowed to me that he had been afraid, relatively as to his proper power, once only, and that was on the day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than the rest of the human herd, cry in his pulpit: "My dear brethren, do not ever forget, when you hear the progress of lights praised, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!}}
For more information, please see: [[Atheism and satanic deception]]
For more information, please see: [[Atheism and satanic deception]]
=== The Russian revolution caused the most notable spread of atheism ===
=== The Russian revolution caused the most notable spread of atheism ===