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When a man of superior intellectual attainments, moral stature, or intuitional feeling ends a period of doubt or search, of darkness or agnosticism, by attaching himself to a sectarian religion, and especially to a sectarian religion which attempts to impress the senses by sacerdotal pomp and ritual, as well as the mind by claims and dogmas,it is a confession of the man's mental failure, an indication of his intellectual retrogression, and an advertisement of his moral cowardice. Such a man should have gone onwards into either the mysticism of truth or the metaphysics of truth. There must have been some weakness either in his character or in his intellect which caused him to fall back so far.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 6 : Philosophy and Religion > # 58