The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether its Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. – E. O. Wilson

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. – William Robertson Smith