If something is in me which can be called religion than it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it." If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. . . . My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. Fear is the parent of cruelty, therefore it is no wonder if religion and cruelty have gone hand-in-hand." I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting." I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. Faith means not wanting to know what is true.So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is truth? All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race ? before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications. The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God. There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear therefore nothing any more. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. Fear believes?courage doubts. Fear falls up the earth and prays--- courage stands erect and thinks. Fear is barbarism---courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, devils and ghosts. Fear is religion, courage is science." "Hands that help are far better then lips that pray." For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings. Environment is a sculptor -- a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' our parents lived on the banks of the Ganges, we worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them. Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to sacrifice His own?" Religion is an illusion that mature men and women should lay aside. The idea of God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshipped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind. So my friends, its getting too long, I do not know how to say things in short like others enjoy the life