If all will admit that all have an equal right to think, then the question is forever solved but as long as organized and powerful churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority, the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. We do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have to forgive them. Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?Ĭhristians tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is-not that they love their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those who differ from them, with simple fairness.
It was known as the Great Patriotic War in. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and entitled to all the rights of man. The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe ( Baltics ), and Southeast Europe ( Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to. Why a difference of opinion upon predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other seems beyond the comprehension of man and yet in all countries where Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. “Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
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