Atheism Is Without God. It Does Not

There Is A Court To Which I Shall Appeal: The Court Of Public Opinion.

No Religion Is Suddenly Rejected By Any People; It Is Rather Gradually Outgrown. None Sees A Religion Die; Dead Religions Are Like Dead Languages And Obsolete Customs: The Decay Is Long And - Like The Glacier March - Is Perceptible Only To The Careful Watcher By Comparisons Extending Over Long Periods.

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.

I Cannot Follow You Christians; For You Try To Crawl Through Your Life Upon Your Knees, While I Stride Through Mine On My Feet.

Probably They Had Good Reason For Omitting It. A Profane Mind Might Make A Jest Of An Apostle Half Seas Over, And Ridicule An Apostolic Gate-keeper Who Couldn't Keep His Head Above Water.