“To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of atheism? That one does not mistake: that, to my mind, does not prove anything against atheism and much against religion. "The heart of a heartless world, said Marx, the soul of soulless conditions." It is misery that makes religion, and it is why this one is miserable. Who would prohibit opium to a dying man? And what are we, out of oblivion or entertainment, anything else but dying?” IfsMenWorldMindHeartChildrenDoeSaidSoulDiesSpeakParentMistakeAtheismConditionsDyingProvePraiseMiseryEntertainmentMiserableOblivionHeartlessConsoleOpiumSoullessAgainst Religion Author:Andre Comte-Sponville