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...a glorious day is coming: amid the heretofore gloom of night the bright
rays of the rising sun are piercing, the light of truth dispels the mists
of ignorance. Bright facts drive out dark delusion; mighty truths triumph
over pious frauds, and no longer need men be affrighted by the notion of an
omnipotent fiend, wandering through the earth, ever seeking their
damnation.


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...I do refuse to see in God a being omniscient as omnipotent, who puts us
into this world without our volition, leaves us to struggle through it as
we can, unequally pitted against an almost omnipotent and supersubtile
Devil, and then, if we fail, finally drops us out of this world into
Hell-fire, where a legion of inferior Devils find constant and never-ending
employment in inventing fresh tortures for us; our crime being that we have
not succeeded where success was rendered impossible.


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No avenging Jewish God, no Satanic devil, no fiery hell, is of any interest
to me.


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Priests! ...your religion! Ah, yes! It can be nothing else than the
religion of hell!


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Punishment, according to our conceptions, should bear some proportion to
the offense. Why then eternal punishment for the temporary offenses of so
frail a creature as man?... Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of
men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float between
vise and virtue.


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The chief source of moral ideas is the reflection on the interests of human
society. Ought these interests, so short, so frivolous, to be guarded by
punishments, eternal and infinite? The damnation of one man is an
infinitely greater evil in the universe, than the subversion of a thousand
million of kingdoms.


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The great reason why the orthodox creeds have become unpopular is, that all
teach the dogma of eternal pain.


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The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery
of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture,
with flaying alive and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men
for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever.


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And yet the minds of children have been polluted by this infamous doctrine
of eternal punishment. I denounce it today as a doctrine, the infamy of
which no language is sufficient to express.


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If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to
hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.
I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of
this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children, and poisoned
the imaginations of men. It has been a constant pain, a perpetual terror to
every good man and woman and child. It has filled the good with horror and
with fear; but it has had no effect upon the infamous and base. It has
wrung the hearts of the tender; it has furrowed the checks of the good.
This doctrine never should be preached again.


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We read the Bible under the scowl and threat of God. We read by the glare
of hell. On one side is the devil, with the instruments of torture in his
hands. On the other, God, ready to launch the infinite curse.


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In the name of God and for the love of God, Hell, in all its fury, was let
loose upon the earth. No wonder Theism is being repudiated and disowned.


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...it is perfectly impossible to conceive that any of these creatures of
God's hand can be condemned to eternal suffering. Could we once admit such
an idea, it our natural conceptions of goodness and justice would be
completely overthrown, and we could no longer look up to God as a merciful
and righteous Being.


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I will call no Being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet
to my fellow creatures; and if such a Being can sentence me to Hell for not
so calling Him, to Hell I will go.


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...the martyrdom of KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LOVE: the martyrdom of the most
innocent and most craving heart, that never had enough of any human love,
that DEMANDED love, that demanded inexorably and frantically to be loved
and nothing else, with terrible outbursts against those who refused him
their love; the story of a poor soul insatiated and insatiable in love,
that had to invent hell to send thither those who WOULD NOT love him...


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...it is true that the palm for malignity must be granted to Jesus, the
inventor of hell.


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...if there be a just God, before whom we are to appear to be judged, he
will never punish those to whom he has not vouchsafed the faculty of seeing
beyond the grave because they honestly avowed that their mental vision was
limited to this side of the tomb.


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     Damnation -- Added : April 13, 2020

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