It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.
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