When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
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