Maybe this world is another planet's hell. The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.