the infinite lie | godfree110158's Blog

No human being has imagination enough to conceive of this infinite horror.

All that the human race has suffered in war and want, in pestilence and
famine, in fire and flood -- all the pangs and pains of every disease and
every death -- all of this is nothing compared with the agonies to be
endured by one lost soul.

This is the consolation of the Christian religion. This is the justice
of God -- the mercy of Christ.

This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of
Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real
persecutor. It founded the Inquisition, forged the chains, and furnished the
fagots. It has darkened the lives of many millions. It made the cradle as
terrible as the coffin. It enslaved nations and shed the blood of countless
thousands. It sacrificed the wisest, the bravest and the best. It subverted
the idea of justice, drove mercy from the heart, changed men to fiends and
banished reason from the brain.

Like a venomous serpent it crawls and coils and hisses in every orthodox
creed.

It makes man an eternal victim and God an eternal fiend. It is the one
infinite horror. Every church in which it is taught is a public curse. Every
preacher who teaches it is an enemy of mankind. Below this Christian dogma,
savagery cannot go. It is the infinite of malice, hatred, and revenge.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its
creator, God.

While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my
strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie