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We are a sane people, however, on the whole; and every sane person is better than his religion." "How can you say such a thing ?" "How can you gainsay it--nay, or begin to doubt it--if only you will be honest with yourself?
Consider how many abominable things religion has taught, and man, by the natural goodness of his heart, has outgrown.

Do you believe, for example, that an unchristened infant goes wailing forth from the threshold of life into an eternity of punishment?
Look me in the face, you father of six! No, of course you don't believe it.