Part 14

138. Faith can take root only in feeble, ignorant, or slothful minds

139. To teach, that any one Religion has greater pretensions to truth than another, is an absurdity, and cause of tumult

140. Religion is unnecessary to Morality

141. Religion is the weakest barrier that can be opposed to the passions

142. Honour is a more salutary and powerful bond than Religion

143. Religion does not restrain the passions of kings

144. Origin of "the divine right of kings," the most absurd, ridiculous, and odious, of usurpations

145. Religion is fatal to political ameliorations: it makes despots licentious and wicked, and their subjects abject and miserable

146. Christianity has propagated itself by preaching implicit obedience to despotism

147. One object of religious principles is to eternize the tyranny of kings

148. How fatal it is to persuade kings that they are responsible for their actions to God alone

149. A devout king is the scourge of his kingdom

150. Tyranny sometimes finds the aegis of Religion a weak obstacle to the despair of the people

151. Religion favours the wickedness of princes by delivering them from fear and remorse

152. What is an enlightened Sovereign?

153. Of the prevailing passions and crimes of the priesthood

154. The quackery of priests

155. Religion has corrupted Morality, and produced innumerable evils

156. Every Religion is intolerant

157. The evils of a state Religion

158. Religion legitimates and authorizes crime

159. Refutation of the argument, that the evils attributed to Religion are but the bad effects of human passions

160. Religion is incompatible with Morality

161. The Morality of the Gospel is impracticable

162. A society of Saints would be impossible

163. Human nature is not depraved

164. Concerning the effects of Jesus Christ's mission

165. The dogma of the remission of sins was invented for the interest of priests