Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.
Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry!
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.[Une société d’athées inventerait aussitôt une religion.]
