" Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. " | " Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. " | " All religions are composed of cowardice pretending to be reality. Abject cowardice; we don't like to think that we are undoubtedly going to die. That's what all religions are based on: Fear of death. " |
" Abraham is a very model of faith in God, of submission to his will and of confidence in his goodness. We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection. " | " One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it. . . . You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. " | " It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals. " |
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