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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted read more
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected read more
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its read more
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner read more
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
