I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism–religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

H.P. Lovecraft
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George Bernard Shaw has a thing against religion. He is an evolutionist and does not believe in the supernatural. He also said that “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

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