AN EXCELLENT PRESCRIPTION FOR RELIGION

While it's true that I find all of mankind's religions preposterous, here is one I could at least listen to.  In his Philosophical Dictionary, published in 1764, Voltaire defined his ideal religion:

"Would it not be that which taught much morality and very little dogma? that which tended to make men just without making them absurd? that which did not order one to believe in things that are impossible, contradictory, injurious to divinity, and pernicious to mankind, and which dare not menace with eternal punishment anyone possessing common sense?  Would it not be that which did not uphold its belief with executioners, and did not inundate the earth with blood on account of unintelligible sophism? . . . which taught only the worship of . . . god, justice, tolerance and humanity?"