Originally Posted by
micaleth
Religion is the hydra headed tree of all unwisdom.
A arcane tool invented to enslave man and force the suppression of ones natural desires.
A social cancer that like all other cancers must be ripped out by the root and destroyed before it spreads and takes hold.
The vicious lie which is spewed into a child ear while sitting upon his mothers knee is a creeping pestilence to everyman.
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who says “thou shalt” to me is my mortal foe.
I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent, mad redeemer and write over his thorn-torn brow “The true prince of Evil — the king of the Slaves!”
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no cult or dogma shall encramp my pen.
I break away from all conventions. Alone, untrammeled, I raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong.
I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad axe and split open his worm-eaten skull.
I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophic whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath!
Then reaching up the festering and varnished facades of your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing scorn: “Lo and behold all this is fraud!”