The Holy Hoax: Early Church and Paganism

Man is made to adore and to obey, but if you do not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities and find his chieftain in his own passion. Religious faith has many manifestations. Look into religion very deeply; you see its manifestations. Many wars around the world are caused by religious doctrines, which leads to tyranny and genocide. There are important facts about religion, and understanding them is essential to handling them. It is very important to understand that religions are manmade affairs. Religions are at odds with what is happening in the world today and yesterday. Mixing religion with myths, coercive ideology is both a "human right" and fundamental civil liberty. Religion is a dream of the human mind. But even in dreams, we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of the simple daylight of reality and necessity.