"...The universe, said Young, is infinite, eternal and everywhere
abounding in life. There is no other world, no heaven but the starry sky
above, no hell but the fictions that other people create. There is a
deity, worthy of great praise, but it acts only according to reason and
through the laws of nature. It has no need for holy books, prophets or
priests. It is ultimately indistinguishable from its creation: nature
itself. The study of nature, or science, is the only acceptable form of
worship. Morality is grounded entirely in nature. And the moral life is
itself the only religion worth the name.
Young called his creed
“the religion of nature” and “the religion of nature’s God.” And he made
abundantly clear that, in his own mind, this radical philosophical
religion was the axis on which the Revolution turned. For him, the
project to free the American people from the yoke of King George III was
part of a grander project to liberate the world from the ghostly
tyranny of supernatural religion..."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/original-tea-partier-atheist-thomas-young-110497.html#.VAcuJPldWSp
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