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If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn't have led Christ up on a high mountain and offered him the worl...more

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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

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After a long time and many questions, Satan said, "The spider kills the fly, and eats it; the bird kills the spider and eats it; the wildcat kills the...more

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For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

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No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of the word; they have not deserved it . . .It is like your paltry race--a...more

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Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings and foolish little vanities and impertinences and ...more

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A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a sing...more

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Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?