So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Fear is the mother of all gods. Nature does all things without their meddling.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it?

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.