Part 15

166. Who fear God?

167. Hell is an absurd invention

168. The bad foundation of religious morals

169. Christian Charity, as preached and practised by Theologians!!!

170. Confession, priestcraft's gold mine, and the destruction of the true principles of Morality

171. The supposition of the existence of a God is by no means necessary to Morality

172. Religion and its supernatural Morality are fatal to the public welfare

173. The union of Church and State is a calamity

174. National Religions are ruinous

175. Religion paralyses Morality

176. Fatal consequences of Devotion

177. The idea of a future life is not consoling to man

178. An Atheist is fully as conscientious as a religious man, and has better motives for doing good

179. An Atheistical king would be far preferable to a religious king

180. Philosophy produces Morality

181. Religious opinions have little influence upon conduct

182. Reason leads man to Atheism

183. Fear alone makes Theists

184. Can we, and ought we, to love God?

185. God and Religion are proved to be absurdities by the different ideas formed of them

186. The existence of God, which is the basis of Religion, has not yet been demonstrated

187. Priests are more actuated by self-interest, than unbelievers

188. Pride, presumption, and badness, are more often found in priests, than in Atheists

189. Prejudices last but for a time: no power is durable which is not founded upon truth

190. What an honourable power ministers of the Gods would obtain, if they became the apostles of reason and the defenders of liberty!

191. What a glorious and happy revolution it would be for the world, if Philosophy were substituted for Religion!

192. The recantation of an unbeliever at the point of death proves nothing against the reasonableness of unbelief

193. It is not true that Atheism breaks the bonds of society