Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?