I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what read more

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil read more

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on no religion read more

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on no religion scornfully
That men did ever find.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of read more

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His
declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

So 'ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout
Of petulant capricious sects,
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So 'ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout
Of petulant capricious sects,
That maggots of corrupted texts,
That first run all religion down,
And after every swarm its own.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and read more

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.