Such men as J. Knox in Scotland and J. Edwards in this country must
have had chronic indigestion or cancers in their insides, or they could
not have revelled so in hell, and "eternal damnation" as they did.
What unreckoned miseries would surely have been spared their listeners
if they, and thousands of their sort, could have developed a modicum of
Christian feeling and a little kindness toward their hypnotized hearers!
Not only from their immediate, personal teachings came awful fears of
what must be the fate of all who were under the judgment as set forth
by the unbalanced minds of such as these; but the long ineradicable
chain of influences that haunt, and torture the minds of good folks,
even to this day. The utter lack of wisdom and knowledge of God's laws
and providence, in the realm of theological teachings, is undoubtedly
the cause of much of the diablerie of the world today.
If all the priests and parsons who have ever infested this earth with
their blasphemous theology were to unite their fiendish forces in a
concentrated effort to doom one human soul--one spirit--to be burned
forever in the endless hell fires which they have so long exulted in
holding up over poor, wretched, ignorant peoples, they could not do it!
They have had a glorious time persecuting, torturing, burning and
slaying human bodies, driving millions of innocent inhabitants off the
planet, who had just as much right to this--their home--as had, or can
ever have any set of bloodthirsty ruffians, claiming their commissions
from God Almighty! How thoughtless, expecting the religionists to put
aside this, their most cherished dogma, of "eternal punishment in hell
fires!" What would they have left to scare folks with, and make them
hand over their dollars, and what, O what! vent could they have for
their own natural, pure cussedness?