Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.