“Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.”
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.