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“Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.”

“I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the spirit of religion; and that the method which frankly recognizes the facts of life, and appreciates the spirit of the scientists whose patient and assiduous endeavor has brought those facts to light, will commend the spirit of religion to the new generation, and will benefit--not impair--theology as a science, by compelling its reconstruction.”

Source: The Theology of an Evolutionist

“Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.”

“The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.”

Firsts Religion Brain Half Five Ten Benefits Priests Commandments Adequate Lame Ten Commandments Half Truth

Book:To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset

“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”

Religion Benefits Favors Receiving Engaging Gratification

Book:The Hermit Of Eyton Forest

Source: The Hermit Of Eyton Forest

“To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.”

Self Religion Belief Benefits Killing Oneself Deception Sheer Self Deception

Book:Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani

Source: Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani

“All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.”

Should Christian Religion Enjoy Prayer Conditions Divine Trust Blessing Benefits Committed Neighbor Deposits Looseness

Book:Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French

Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French

“The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.”

Way Religion Goodness Benefits Debt Setting Settings Best Things Thank God Repaying

Author:Daniel Dennett

“The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.”

Mind Humans Religion Moral Violence Benefits Excuse Commit Motive Tangible Atrocities Acts Of Violence

Book:Virtuous Violence

Source: Virtuous Violence

“I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.”

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959