Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism . . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.

Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.