MaryJane

"Religion, especially with the moderns, has tried to identify itself with morality, the principles of which it has thereby totally obscured. It has rendered men unsociable by duty, and forced them to be inhuman to everyone who thought differently from themselves .... Since the extinction of Paganism, the people have made it a religious principle to become outrageous whenever any opinion is advanced which their priests think contrary to sound doctrine. The sectaries of a religion which preaches, in appearence, nothing but charity, concord and peace, have proved themselves more ferocious than cannibals or savages whenever their divines excited them to destroy their brethren. There is no crime which men have not committed under the idea of pleasing the Divinity or appeasing his wrath ..." -- Baron d'Holbach, 1772