A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.