Fromm: "Once a doctrine, however irrational, has gained power in a society, millions of people will believe it rather than feel ostracized and isolated."
Bierce: "Religion - a daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable."
Wm. James: "Medical materialism finishes up Saint Paul by calling his visions on the road to Damascus a discharging lesion of the occipital cortex, he being an epileptic. It snuffs out Saint Teresa as an hysteric, Saint Francis of Assisi as an hereditary degenerate."
T. Jefferson: "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man... perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind... a mere contrivance (for the clergy) to filch wealth and power to themselves."
Nietzsche: "God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: thou shall not think."
Euripides: " We, holding that the Gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world."
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