To Regret Religion Is To

Life Is A Biography, Not A Series Of Disconnected Moments, More Or Less Pleasurable But Increasingly Tedious And Unsatisfying Unless One Imposes A Purposive Pattern Upon Them.

Considering The Importance Of Resentment In Our Lives, And The Damage It Does, It Receives Scant Attention From Psychiatrists And Psychologists. Resentment Is A Great Rationalizer: It Presents Us With Selected Versions Of Our Own Past, So That We Do Not Recognize Our Own Mistakes And Avoid The Necessity To Make Painful Choices.

How Many People Does Each Of Us Know Who Claim To Seek Happiness But Freely Choose Paths Inevitably Leading To Misery?

When People Are Forced To Remain Silent When They Are Being Told The Most Obvious Lies, Or Even Worse When They Are Forced To Repeat The Lies Themselves, They Lose Once And For All Their Sense Of Probity. To Assent To Obvious Lies Is To Co-operate With Evil, And In Some Small Way To Become Evil Oneself. One's Standing To Resist Anything Is Thus Eroded, And Even Destroyed. A Society Of Emasculated Liars Is Easy To Control.

There Is Something Deeply Attractive, At Least To Quite A Lot Of People, About Squalor, Misery, And Vice. They Are Regarded As More Authentic, And Certainly More Exciting, Than Cleanliness, Happiness, And Virtue.