It is inconceivable that any form of intelligence would waste so much time and effort to make such an inferior piece of life–with all the 'ills that flesh is heir to, ' and with all the misery and suffering that is so essential a part of living. If man is a 'fallen angel, ' by the commission of a 'sin, ' then disease and sorrow are part of God's inscrutable plan as a penalty imposed upon him for his 'disobedience, ' and man's entire life is devoted to the expiation of that sin so as to soften the indictment before the 'Throne of God.'Man's atonement consists in making himself as miserable as possible by praying, fasting, masochism, flagellations and other forms of torture. This sadistic delusion causes him to insist that others–under pain of punishment–be as miserable as himself, for fear that if others fail to do as he does, it will provoke the wrath of his tyrant God to a more severe chastisement. The inevitable result is that Man devotes his life, not to the essentials of living and the making of a happy home, but to the building of temples and churches where he can 'lift his voice to God' in a frenzy of fanaticism, and eventually he becomes a victim of hysteria. His time and energy are wasted to cleanse his 'soul, ' which he does not possess, and to save himself from a future punishment in hell which exists only in his imagination. Joseph Lewis
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