What is heaven but a euphemism for fulfillment of repressed desires?

Fears cultivated to dissuade rational thinking are called the hell fires.

What is virtue construed but absolute unquestioning mental submission?

Sin is the exercise of the fundamental freedom of deliberation and reason.

What is doctrine but an ordered system for controlling behavior and mind?

Blasphemy is the expression of what cogent rational thought will soon find.

What is devotion but an induced and elaborate method of self deception?

Religion is social training to enforce conformation to a set conduct pattern.

What is the soul but an egocentric and wishful longing for eternal existence?

Spirituality is the exposition of morality based on transcendental pretence.

What is God but a sanctified instrument for exploiting minds to get power?

Relinquishment for salvation is sermonized; the real aim is authority however.

Forfeit all you have here on earth, and you will receive manifold in paradise;

I don’t get the investment logic of the holy men who urge speculative sacrifice.

Religious fervor divides man from man, promotes chauvinism, breeds hatred;

It preaches peace and love but nourishes odious intolerance, endorses bloodshed.

I am neither sophist nor hedonist; but faith and holiness seem to me devious,

What sets man apart from beast is reason, sacrifice this and become religious.