Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear - those are the twin bases of every religion.
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
