Religion Is A Collective Insanity.

Even The Most Wretched Individual Of Our Present Society Could Not Exist And Develop Without The Cumulative Social Efforts Of Countless Generations.

A Jealous Lover Of Human Liberty, Deeming It The Absolute Condition Of All That We Admire And Respect In Humanity, I Reverse The Phrase Of Voltaire, And Say That, If God Really Existed, It Would Be Necessary To Abolish Him.

Real Humanity Presents A Mixture Of All That Is Most Sublime And Beautiful With All That Is Vilest And Most Monstrous In The World.

[jehovah Is] Certainly The Most Jealous, The Most Vain, The Most Ferocious, The Most Unjust, The Most Bloodthirsty, The Most Despotic, And The Most Hostile To Human Dignity And Liberty.

Idealism Is The Despot Of Thought, Just As Politics Is The Despot Of Will.