All religion is slavery.
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.