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It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ‘I believe’ to ‘one does feel’.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

I’m religiously opposed to religion.