Religion is just mind control.

Religion is just mind control.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and read more

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be,
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G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be,
But twenty times I rather would be
An atheist clean,
Than under gospel colours hid be,
Just for a screen.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I read more

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.

As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to read more

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he read more

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means