Christians, docile to the lessons of their divine master, which they dare not examine, have made perfection consist in a total abandonment of those o… - Baron d'Holbach

Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

Jesus, whose birth was very equivocal, had particular reasons for wishing that adultery should be treated with indulgence. Independently of Mary his mother, from whom Joseph was probably separated, our preacher had in his train dames, whose conduct had not been irreproachable anterior to their conversion. Besides Mary Magdalene, who was a noted courtesan, Jesus had in his suite Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, who, according to the tradition, robbed and forsook her husband to follow the messiah, and assist him with her property. Moreover, the indulgence which he preached must have gained him the hearts of all the ladies in his auditory.

Everything that passes in the world, proves to us, in the clearest manner, that it is not governed by an intelligent being.