JOSEPH L. LEWIS

Religion is all profit. They have no merchandise to buy, no commissions to pay, and no refunds to make for unsatisfactory service and results....Their commodity is fear.

The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they must keep the people shackled to a form of mental slavery.

Of the ten crimes which Biblical Hebrew law punished by stoning, nine have ceased to be offenses in modern society.

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

There is hardly a form of insanity or delusion that has not been induced by some sort of religious belief.

When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.

Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

Of the ten crimes which Biblical Hebrew law punished by stoning, nine have ceased to be offenses in modern society.

The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they must keep the people shackled to a form of mental slavery.

There is hardly a form of insanity or delusion that has not been induced by some sort of religious belief.

Religion is all profit. They have no merchandise to buy, no commissions to pay, and no refunds to make for unsatisfactory service and results....Their commodity is fear.

When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.

Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.