The Necessity of Atheism

The Necessity of Atheism
By DR. D. M. BROOKS
FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION NEW YORK
1933 BY FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION
(From Free Books)

Freethought has dethroned the gods from the pedestal, and has replaced, not an empty idol, but an ideal, the ideal of a man who is his own god.

It was Spinoza who remarked that, "The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live." Religious creeds can but teach how man should live, so that when he dies, he may be assured of salvation; and the important thing is not what he does to help his fellow men while he is living, but how closely he lives in conformity to a reactionary code of dogmas.