No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was God himself. Yet God forsook Jesus, and the latter cried out to know why he was forsaken. Any able divine will explain that of course he knew, and that he was not forsaken. The explanation renders it difficult to believe the dying cry, and the passage becomes one of the mysteries of the holy Christian religion, which, unless a man rightly believe, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

A mere society form of Atheism.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.