With this recognition of the finality of death, no one should willingly withhold acts that would bring benefits, joy or happiness to others. I do not believe that if there is a God of this vast universe that such a God would create a hell to torment to all eternity helpless and innocent human beings. I defend the God of the religionists against the libels of his own believers. As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started. When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.
Religion is all profit.
Their commodity is fear. They blackmail their parishioners with threats of hell and damnation. Let me tell you that religion is the cruelest fraud ever perpetrated upon the human race. It is the last of the great scheme of thievery that man must legally prohibit so as to protect himself from the charlatans who prey upon the ignorance and fears of the people. The penalty for this type of extortion should be as severe as it is of other forms of dishonesty.