The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.


Selected Letters 1934-1937 (ed. Arkham House Publishers, 1976) - ISBN: 9780870540363

H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their...

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their...

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their...

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their...