A mere society form of Atheism.

I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.

God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous and spiritual mixtures. They interfere sadly with sober thinking, and play the Devil with your brains.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

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

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

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.