"I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience."

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Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

— Carl Sagan