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

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

One Man's food is another Man's Poison

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals.

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.