“Religion has had a natural origin, like coal, and rock salt, and mountains, and river valleys, and everything else. It has been made in the laboratory of human feeling and imagination. The gods did not make men; men made the gods.”

— J. Howard Moore

"The Source of Religion", International Socialist Review, Vol. 16, Iss. 12, Jun. 1916

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