"It is to laugh" to "see the heathen rage and devise a vain thing." No
hierarchy of earth, no multitudinous howl of ignorance and stupidity
that "having eyes that see not; and having ears that hear not" can
block the wheels of progress. It has worked in the past, "quite some,"
routing out tortured souls and bodies by the millions, sending them
flying off from this planet which was, and is their real home, turning
rack and screw, and setting baleful fires on tender flesh, threatening
further eternal hell fires; all for what? Why, to prove that "tweedle
dee," is greater than "tweedle dum," and this is the record of religion
at the hands of the theologians and the priests! This is the story of
accepted orthodox religion. Why, then, have a religion? Why not try
the altruism taught by the great Master in a system of ethics that can
never be superseded by one higher and more truth-inspiring, better
adapted to the perfect unfoldment of the human race?
No more of these awful persecutions, and massacres, and killings for
the "glory of God;" for the amusement of devils, really! Practical
common sense, and reason will surely be, in time, the salvation of this
world.