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The Peculiarity Of All Death-based Religions Is That Their Subject-matter Is Entirely Outside Of Facts. Men Could Think And Think, Talk And Argue, Advance, Deny, Assert, And Controversy, And Write Innumerable Books, Without Being Hampered At Any Time By Any Fact.

The Labor Of Women In The House, Certainly, Enables Men To Produce More Wealth Than They Otherwise Could; And In This Way Women Are Economic Factors In Society. But So Are Horses.

I Cry At Nothing, And Cry Most Of The Time.

No Matter What The Belief, If It Had Modestly Said, 'this Is Our Best Thought, Go On, Think Farther!' Then We Could Have Smoothly Outgrown Our Early Errors And Long Since Have Developed A Religion Such As Would Have Kept Pace With An Advancing World. But We Were Made To Believe And Not Allowed To Think. We Were Told To Obey, Rather Than To Experiment And Investigate.

It Cannot Be Too Strongly Asserted That The Insistence On Blind, Unreasoning Faith Is Due Mainly To The Maintenance Of A Subject-matter Upon Which There Was No Knowledge, Namely The 'other World'; And That This Basis Was Assumed Because Of Early Man's Preoccupation With Death. It Is, Unfortunately, Quite Possible To Believe A Thing Which Is Contradicted By Facts, Especially If The Facts Are Not Generally Known; But If The Whole Position On Which We Rested Our Religions Had Been Visibly Opposed By What We Did Know, Even The Unthinking Masses Would, In Time, Have Noticed It.