And that virtue is its own reward. It believes that love of humanity is a higher ideal than a love of God. We cannot help God, but we can help mankind. Hands that help are better far than lips that pray. Banish me from Eden when you will, but first let me eat of the tree of knowledge.
Atheism is a self-reliant philosophy.
It makes a man intellectually free. He is thrilled to enthusiasm by his mental emancipation and he faces the universe without fear of ghosts or gods. It teaches man that unless he devotes his energies and applies himself whole-heartedly to the task he wishes to achieve, the accomplishment will not be made. To the philosophy of Atheism belongs the credit of robbing Death of its horror and terror. The situation today is not whether the present trend in religion, with its impossible premises and its still more impossible articles of belief, leads to a compromise with science, or whether it should be liberalized into a respectable harmony with the pace set by education and the progress made by man, but whether its complete eradication must be accomplished so that it may no longer hamper man in his search for the truth nor be an obstacle in his path toward his ultimate mastery of the forces of Nature.