I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until that time comes, however, if religion of any name or nature makes man more happy, comfortable, and able to live peaceably with his brothers, it is good. But as a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation.
None is perfect or inspired.
As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense. The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know.