THE Old Testament is absurd, ignorant and cruel,--the New Testament is
a mingling of the false and true--it is good and bad.
The Jehovah of the Jews is an impossible monster. The Trinity absurd and
idiotic, Christ is a myth or a man.
The fall of man is contradicted by every fact concerning human history
that we know. The scheme of redemption--through the atonement--is
immoral and senseless. Hell was imagined by revenge, and the orthodox
heaven is the selfish dream of heartless serfs and slaves. The
foundations of the faith have crumbled and faded away. They were
miracles, mistakes, and myths, ignorant and untrue, absurd, impossible,
immoral, unnatural, cruel, childish, savage. Beneath the gaze of the
scientist they vanished, confronted by facts they disappeared. The
orthodox religion of our day has no foundation in truth. Beneath the
superstructure can be found no fact.