45. Do not Shock the Heathen!

You send missionaries to Turkey, and tell them that the Koran is a lie.

You shock them. You tell them that Mahomet was not a prophet. You shock

them. It is too bad to shock them. You go to India, and you tell them

that Vishnu was nothing, that Purana was nothing, that Buddha was

nobody, and your Brahma, he is nothing. Why do you shock these people?

You should not do that; you ought not to hurt their feelings. I tell you

no man on earth has a right to be shocked at the expression of an honest

opinion when it is kindly done, and I don't believe there is any God in

the universe who has put a curtain over the fact and made it a crime for

the honest hand of investigation to endeavor to draw that curtain.

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