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To: Greg or e who wrote (20781)	2/5/2012 2:44:46 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Thomas A. Edison My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. All Bibles are man-made. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk. I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. To those seaching for truth - not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul... No, all this talk of an existence beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end. The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them. What fools. [Thomas Edison, commenting on he spectacle of hundreds of thousands making a pilgrimage to the grave of an obscure priest in Massachusetts, in the hope of effecting miraculous cures, quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal conversation] Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! [Thomas Edison on Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal conversation]