# Religion and Skepticism in The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

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Mill discusses his father's rejection of religious belief on moral grounds, and his own skeptical view of organized religion, arguing that true morality and progress require freeing thought from dogmatic superstition.

## Where it surfaces

- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_autobiography_of_john_stuart_mill_se/chapters/ii): Mill's father rejected religious belief on moral grounds, viewing it as a great moral evil, and this shaped Mill's own early irreligious upbringing.

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