I'm Sure I Never Used To Be

The Peculiarity Of All Death-based Religions Is That Their Subject-matter Is Entirely Outside Of Facts. Men Could Think And Think, Talk And Argue, Advance, Deny, Assert, And Controversy, And Write Innumerable Books, Without Being Hampered At Any Time By Any Fact.

Shall You Complain Who Feed The World? Who Clothe The World? Who House The World? Shall You Complain Who Are The World, Of What The World May Do? As From This Hour You Use Your Power, The World Must Follow You!

If We Once Admit That Our Life Is Here For The Purpose Of Race-improvement, Then We Question Any Religion Which Does Not Improve The Race, Or The Main Force Of Which Evaporates, As It Were, Directing Our Best Efforts Toward The Sky.... Improvement In The Human Race Is Not Accomplished By Extracting Any Number Of Souls And Placing Them In Heaven, Or Elsewhere. It Must Be Established On Earth, Either Through Achievement In Social Service, Or Through Better Children.

(i Would Not Say It To A Living Soul, Of Course, But This Is Dead Paper And A Great Relief To My Mind

The Most Familiar Facts Are Often Hardest To Understand.