Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil read more

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the read more

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ordinances,
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments
and doctrines of men?

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes read more

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.