“The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious
“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late