So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake...Religion is all bunk.
Some other Edison quotes, from the atheism.about website:
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. (Thomas Edison, Do We Live Again?)
All Bibles are man-made.
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. (Columbian Magazine)
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. (Quoted in "2000 Years of Disbelief, Famous People with the Courage to Doubt, " by James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996)
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. (Quoted by Joseph Lewis from a personal conversation; source: Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations)
What fools. (Commenting on the 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; source: Cliff Walker's Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations]
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