It has been popularly reported that science has driven God out of the
world. Science has refuted ignorant beliefs, driven superstition out
of the minds of people, and opened many minds to the great facts of
life as against the silly beliefs of primitive peoples. It is thought
by many that the history of all God's doings is writ in the Holy (?)
Book--the Bible. From the study of his character, one might fancy that
"Great Jove of Mount High Olympus" was come again with only his name
changed from Jove to Jehovah, for He brought with him all the "high
days," and ceremonies, and every vice and delinquency, and outrage that
had marked pagan rule. He gave special directions as to the
killings-off of the Hitites, and the Jebusites and all the other ites.
There weren't to be any Ites or any other "furriners" left alive to
pester his chosen people. He went right on giving directions as to how
these people were to be disposed of, making such awful suggestions,
specially as to the women, that if He had not been known to be God, He
might have been recognized as the Head-up Devil. It has been written:
"By their fruits ye shall know them." What are the results, the
"fruits," of the Jehovian dispensation? They are just exactly such as
must naturally follow the teachings and influences of the spirit of
hate and vengeance; the suppression of reason, holding back the
progress of the race, fettering the brains of men with bonds of
ignorance and superstition, a network of lies and myths. Through the
dominance of selfishness and greed, the boasted freedom of men has been
lost--they are slaves to a man-made religion. So science has served
the highest interest of humanity in doing all it can to drive out this
sort of a God, with his hell and eternal punishment, from the world.
The reasoning, thinking world has outgrown such a wicked, despotic God,
and is demanding quite another sort of Deity. Humanity has to be
taught what it must have to equip it for its higher, nobler destiny.
Justice to all in equal measure; Reason and Love must abide and work
out their results, their "fruits," in human lives. The unanimous
refusal of the framers of the "Constitution" of the United States to
set forth therein the will of God, and his commands was wise and
farseeing. It has raised up a barrier against the encroachments of
every form of popular religion and has given a semblance to freedom of
thought and speech.
All along the way, seers and prophets--inspired mediums--have wrought
and sung of the days to come when all the earth should rejoice in peace
and good will. The magnificence of their inspired and inspiring words,
their immortal melodies of praise of the Creator will stand while this
world lasts. The fact that his people had diviner instincts than had
He whom they worshipped as God, showed that "Yahweh" was only the
guardian spirit of the great and wonderful Hebrew race.
The greatest discovery of the past century, far greater than any
revelation of science or knowledge of past ages, revealed by modern
research is the discovery of a God of Love. Not of that sentimental
expression of maudlin emotion that soon evaporates in hypocritical
make-believe; but the profound recognition of the rightful
consideration of every human being, regardless of race, color or
belongings.