March 2016:
Religion is a beautiful, soothing myth of childhood which some of us mistake for reality and never outgrow. And gods are the silliest & most pernicious inventions of the human mind. Only our paralyzing fear of death leads us to that sky-fairy bit of foolishness! Fear of death is the “hopium” of those in morbid fear of death; religion is the manure that feeds that fear.
