A Mere Society Form Of Atheism.

The Atheist Does Not Say 'there Is No God,' But He Says 'i Know Not What You Mean By God; I Am Without Idea Of God'; The Word 'god' Is To Me A Sound Conveying No Clear Or Distinct Affirmation. ... The Bible God I Deny; The Christian God I Disbelieve In; But I Am Not Rash Enough To Say There Is No God As Long As You Tell Me You Are Unprepared To Define God To Me.

God Is A Spirit. Jesus Was Led Up Of The Spirit To Be Tempted Of The Devil; And It Is Also True That Spirits Are Very Likely To Lead Men To The Devil. Too Intimate Acquaintance With Whisky Toddy Overnight Is Often Followed By The Delirium Tremens And Blue-devils On The Morrow. We Advise Our Readers To Eschew Alike Spirituous And Spiritual Mixtures. They Interfere Sadly With Sober Thinking, And Play The Devil With Your Brains.

The Ameliorating March Of The Last Few Centuries Has Been Initiated By The Heretics Of Each Age, Though I Concede That The Men And Women Denounced And Persecuted As Infidels By The Pious Of One Century Are Frequently Claimed As Saints By The Pious Of A Later Generation.

On The Cross The Jesus Of The Four Gospels, Who Was God, Cried Out My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? God Cannot Forsake Himself, Jesus Was God Himself. Yet God Forsook Jesus, And The Latter Cried Out To Know Why He Was Forsaken. Any Able Divine Will Explain That Of Course He Knew, And That He Was Not Forsaken. The Explanation Renders It Difficult To Believe The Dying Cry, And The Passage Becomes One Of The Mysteries Of The Holy Christian Religion, Which, Unless A Man Rightly Believe, Without Doubt He Shall Perish Everlastingly.

Without Free Speech No Search For Truth Is Possible; Without Free Speech No Discovery Of Truth Is Useful; Without Free Speech Progress Is Checked, And The Nations No Longer March Forward Towards The Nobler Life Which The Future Holds For Man. Better A Thousandfold Abuse Of Free Speech Than Denial Of Free Speech. The Abuse Dies In A Day; But The Denial Stays The Life Of The People And Entombs The Hope Of The Race.