The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

Religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in.

Jesus Christ also made wine, not a medicine, but a sacrament. But [the non-Christian] makes it, not a sacrament, but a medicine. He feasts because life is not joyful; he revels because he is not glad.nn"Drink", he says, “for you know not whence you come nor why. Drink, for you know not when you go nor where. Drink, because the stars are cruel and the world as idle as a humming-top. Drink, because there is nothing worth trusting, nothing worth fighting for. Drink, because all things are lapsed in a base equality and an evil peace.” So he stands offering us the cup in his hand.nnAnd at the high altar of Christianity stands another figure, in whose hand also is the cup of the vine. “Drink” he says “for the whole world is as red as this wine, with the crimson of the love and wrath of God. Drink, for the trumpets are blowing for battle and this is the stirrup-cup. Drink, for this is my blood of the new testament that is shed for you. Drink, for I know of whence you come and why. Drink, for I know of when you go and where.”

Our present condition needs serious recognitionnWhere there’s no repentance there can be no remission.nAnd that sentence more serious than Vietnam, nthe atom bomb, and Saddam, nand Minister Farrakhan.nWhat’s going on? What’s a priority to you? nBy what authority do we do?nThe majority hasn’t a clue.

Moreover, a man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world; he has climbed into a fixed star, and the earth whizzes below him like a [movie]. Millions of mild black-coated men call themselves sane and sensible merely because they always catch the fashionable insanity, because they are hurried into madness after madness by the maelstrom of the world.