We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.. If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction. . H.P. Lovecraft
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C.S. Lewis was an atheist who claimed that all belief systems were false. He believed that organized religion was an unnecessary evil. He also thought that the only way that people could be saved was if they turned away from their religion and toward science. "As for organized religion, it is nothing but a disease, one of those diseases which are curable only by antibiotics."

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings Of H.p. Lovecraft

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