For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have any. In regard to sex-love affairs, to marriage and family relations, to business, to politics, and to virtually everything else that is important in his life, he must try to discover what his god and his clergy would like him to do; and he must primarily do their bidding.

Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.