Atheist, Without God, I Look To Humankind

No Religion Is Suddenly Rejected By Any People; It Is Rather Gradually Outgrown. None Sees A Religion Die; Dead Religions Are Like Dead Languages And Obsolete Customs: The Decay Is Long And - Like The Glacier March - Is Perceptible Only To The Careful Watcher By Comparisons Extending Over Long Periods.

Without Free Speech No Search For Truth Is Possible; Without Free Speech No Discovery Of Truth Is Useful.

If When I Am Libelled I Take No Notice, The World Believes The Libel. If I Sue, I Have To Pay About One Hundred Pounds' Costs For The Privilege, And Gain The Smallest Coin The Country Knows For Recompense.

A Ground Frequently Taken By Christian Theologians Is That The Progress And Civilization Of The World Are Due To Christianity; And The Discussion Is Complicated By The Fact That Many Eminent Servants Of Humanity Have Been Nominal Christians, Of One Or Other Of The Sects. My Allegation Will Be That The Special Services Rendered To Human Progress By These Exceptional Men Have Not Been In Consequence Of Their Adhesion To Christianity, But In Spite Of It, And That The Specific Points Of Advantage To Human Kind Have Been In Ratio Of Their Direct Opposition To Precise Biblical Enactments.

Liberty's Chief Foe Is Theology.