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Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.

Society is better off without certain people.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.