Man is like the God he worships, and history shows that the Christian
church has been as cruel as its God. A Christian minister damns just as
his God does. He sends every free soul to hell just as his God does. He
demands obedience just as his God does. The tyranny of heaven is repeated
on earth and every tyrant quotes God for his authority.
Think of the Christian superstition demanding recognition and acceptance!
It seems almost incredible that a man can be found in this age to preach
such glaring inconsistencies and absurdities, such a ridiculous faith,
such injustice and cruelty, as the Christian religion stands for. We can
hardly believe our own ears when we go inside of a Christian church. We
cannot understand how this terrible superstition has obtained possession
of the mind, nor how human beings can be so blinded and apparently
stultified! Were there on this earth a judge who should pronounce sentence
upon a person on account of his religious belief, mankind would brand the
name of that judge with the deepest obloquy. He would be stripped of his
robe of office and disgraced forever in the eyes of every true man and
woman on the globe. His deed would be a black spot on the page of history
and his memory a burden to the world.
Put this judge on the throne of the universe and you have the Christian’s
God.