I was indeed a prodigy of Early Impiety… There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as there was a time when I believed there was a Devil… Suddenly the broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie… I sensed it was a silly story long before I dared to admit even to myself that it was a silly story. For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty… Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?
~ H. G. Wells (born: 1866-09-21 died: 1946-08-13 at age: 79) What Great Men Think of Religion