When I was poor, I would pray to God for support. But now that I’m rich, I have happiness: there’s nothing that I cannot buy — money takes care of all danger and chance. Therefore I conclude that only poor people need God. And the poor are resentful of my wealth, so they tell me that it’s impossible for a rich man to enter Heaven; but I am in Heaven right here and now, in the only life that actually exists. The notion of an afterlife where souls are rewarded or punished is nothing more than an idea; and poor people believe in it, because their only possessions are hopes and dreams. Note as well that none of their wishes ever come true.
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