Anyone Can Spot A Lie, Unless He

...finally Men Were Saved Only Through God's Son Dying For Them, And That Unless Human Beings Believed This Silly, Impossible And Wicked Story They Were Doomed To Hell? Can Anyone With Intelligence Really Believe That A Child Born Today Should Be Doomed Because The Snake Tempted Eve And Eve Tempted Adam? To Believe That Is Not God-worship; It Is Devil-worship.

Criminal Cases Receive The Attention Of The Press. The Cruel And Disagreeable Things Of Life Are More Apt To Get The Newspaper Space Than The Pleasant Ones. It Must Be That Most People Enjoy Hearing Of And Reading About The Troubles Of Others. Perhaps Men Unconsciously Feel That They Rise In The General Level As Others Go Down.

Do You, Good People, Believe That Adam And Eve Were Created In The Garden Of Eden And That They Were Forbidden To Eat From The Tree Of Knowledge? I Do. The Church Has Always Been Afraid Of That Tree. It Still Is Afraid Of Knowledge. Some Of You Say Religion Makes People Happy. So Does Laughing Gas. So Does Whiskey. I Believe In The Brain Of Man.

When We Fully Understand The Brevity Of Life, Its Fleeting Joys And Unavoidable Pains; When We Accept The Facts That All Men And Women Are Approaching An Inevitable Doom: The Consciousness Of It Should Make Us More Kindly And Considerate Of Each Other. This Feeling Should Make Men And Women Use Their Best Efforts To Help Their Fellow Travelers On The Road, To Make The Path Brighter And Easier As We Journey On. It Should Bring A Closer Kinship, A Better Understanding, And A Deeper Sympathy For The Wayfarers Who Must Live A Common Life And Die A Common Death.

Religion Is Based On The Insistence That Over And Above All Is A Purpose And A Guiding Hand That Is Beneficent And Kind, And Would Not Leave A Hair Unnumbered Or Let A Sparrow Fall Unnoticed To The Ground. Those Who Cherish Such Hallucinations Forget That The All-loving Power Is Inflicting Tuberculosis, Cancer, Famine, And Pestilence On The Trusting, Simple Sons Of Men.