"_And now he will raise the mischief with them; that his anger burns
like hell_."
That is true. The bible says of God--"My anger burns to the lowest
hell." And that is all that the defendant says. Every word of it is
in the bible. He simply does not believe it--and for that reason is a
"blasphemer."
I say to you now, gentlemen,--and I shall argue to the Court,--that
there is not in what I have read a solitary blasphemous word--not a word
that has not been said in hundreds of pulpits in the Christian world.
Theodore Parker, a Unitarian, speaking of this bible-God, said: "Vishnu
with a necklace of skulls, Vishnu with bracelets of living, hissing
serpents, is a figure of Love and Mercy compared to the God of the Old
Testament." That, we might call "blasphemy," but not what I have read.