You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door. . . . . Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.