How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
