Blasphemy

I begin to understand now what Christ meant when he said that blasphemy

against the Holy Ghost was unforgiveable, while speaking against the Son

of Man might be forgiven. He must have meant that a man may be pardoned

for being unable to believe in the Christian mythology, but that if he

made light of that spirit which the common conscience of all men,

whatever their particular creed, recognises as divine, there was no hope

for him. No more there is.

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