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Clarence Darrow on Religion

1857–1938 United States

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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey.

We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States, and you know it, and that is all.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.

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