If You Violate Nature's Laws You Are

As A Scientist, I Cannot Help Feeling That All Religions Are On A Tottering Foundation . . . I Am An Infidel Today. I Do Not Believe What Had Been Served To Me To Believe. I Am A Doubter, A Questioner, A Skeptic. When It Can Be Proved To Me That There Is Immortality, That There Is Resurrection Beyond The Gates Of Death, Then Will I Believe. Until Then, No.

The Theory Of Reincarnation, Which Originated In India, Has Been Welcomed In Other Countries. Without Doubt, It Is One Of The Most Sensible And Satisfying Of All Religions That Mankind Has Conceived. This, Like The Others, Comes From The Best Qualities Of Human Nature, Even If In This, As In The Others, Its Adherents Sometimes Fail To Carry Out The Principles In Their Lives.

Let Us Read The Bible Without The Ill-fitting Colored Spectacles Of Theology, Just As We Read Other Books, Using Our Own Judgment And Reason, Listening To The Voice Within, Not To The Noisy Babel Without. Most Of Us Possess Discriminating Reasoning Powers. Can We Use Them Or Must We Be Fed By Others Like Babes?

The Idea That A Good God Would Send People To A Burning Hell Is Utterly Damnable To Me - The Raving Of Insanity, Superstition Gone To Seed! I Want No Part Of Such A God.

Do Not Feed Children On Maudlin Sentimentalism Or Dogmatic Religion; Give Them Nature... Do Not Terrify Them In Early Life With The Fear Of An After-world. Never Was A Child Made More Noble And Good By The Fear Of A Hell.