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

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.