Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.