Religion: Words of the Week

"We have renounced the idea of hell, and we have lost belief in heaven, except as a desirable but probably fictitious residential neighborhood. In consequence, we have lost all feeling of crisis in this life, and as for a future life, if we neither believe in hell nor in heaven, what is there left of interest in the whole idea? We are becoming a humanity without God or devil. We could not care less. This seems to me to be uncommonly like the fitting motto for the worst kind of hell, and we are on our way towards it."

—Dr. Alfred W....

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