““[F]aith separates God from man, consequently it separates man from man, for God is nothing else than the idea of the species invested with a mystical form, - the separation of God from man is therefore the separation of man from man, the unloosening of the social bond. … Faith isolates God, it makes him a particular, distinct being: love universalises; it makes God a common being, the love of whom is one with the love of man. Faith produces in man an inward disunion, a disunion with himself, and by consequence an outward disunion also; … Faith makes belief in its God a law: love is freedom, - it condemns not even the atheist, because it is itself atheistic[.]””
