" When people are prepared to accept one of twenty or thirty different stories from thousands of years ago, I wonder what else are they prepared to accept when it comes to decisions which affect me. " | " What kind of mind would do something as useless as inventing ghosts and bribing them for good weather? " | " Religion continues to exert upon the mind of the age a tremendous weight of influence out of all proportion to its slender appeal to rationalism. This power is drawn from the inherent force and sway of traditionalism in common nature. " |
" Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires ...by teaching him to trust in God's help it took away his trust in his own powers. " | " The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. " | " If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? ...For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. " |
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