Better A Thousandfold Abuse Of

A Ground Frequently Taken By Christian Theologians Is That The Progress And Civilization Of The World Are Due To Christianity; And The Discussion Is Complicated By The Fact That Many Eminent Servants Of Humanity Have Been Nominal Christians, Of One Or Other Of The Sects. My Allegation Will Be That The Special Services Rendered To Human Progress By These Exceptional Men Have Not Been In Consequence Of Their Adhesion To Christianity, But In Spite Of It, And That The Specific Points Of Advantage To Human Kind Have Been In Ratio Of Their Direct Opposition To Precise Biblical Enactments.

Atheist, Without God, I Look To Humankind For Sympathy, For Love, For Hope, For Effort, For Aid.

Is It Not Gain To Have Diminished The Faith That It Was The Duty Of The Wretched And The Miserable To Be Content With The Lot In Life Which Providence Had Awarded Them?

Is Poverty Of Spirit The Chief Amongst Virtues, That Jesus Gives It Prime Place In His Teachings? Is It Even A Virtue At All? Surely Not. Manliness Of Spirit, Honesty Of Spirit, Fullness Of Rightful Purpose, These Are Virtues; Poverty Of Spirit Is A Crime.

I Know Not What You Mean By God; The Word God Is To Me A Sound Conveying No Clear Or Distinct Affirmation.