 The System’s subtitle is Treatise on Sociology Instituting the Religion of Humanity. While the different forms of deism preserve the idea of God and dissolve religion into a vague religiosity, Comte proposes exactly the contrary: a religion with neither God nor the supernatural. His project had little success; he even accomplished a tour de force by uniting both believers and non-believers against him. The many ridiculous details of Comte’s religion made the task of his opponents even easier. But this aspect of Comte’s thought deserves better than the discredit into which it has fallen (Wernick 2000; de Lubac 1945).