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If God Is, Man Is A Slave; Now, Man Can And Must Be Free; Then, God Does Not Exist. I Defy Anyone Whomsoever To Avoid This Circle; Now, Therefore, Let All Choose.

They Maintain That Only A Dictatorship - Their Dictatorship, Of Course - Can Create The Will Of The People, While Our Answer To This Is: No Dictatorship Can Have Any Other Aim But That Of Self-perpetuation, And It Can Beget Only Slavery In The People Tolerating It; Freedom Can Be Created Only By Freedom, That Is, By A Universal Rebellion On The Part Of The People And Free Organization Of The Toiling Masses From The Bottom Up.

The Idea Of God Implies The Abdication Of Human Reason And Justice; It Is The Most Decisive Negation Of Human Liberty And Necessarily Ends In The Enslavement Of Mankind Both In Theory And Practice.

If God Existed, Only In One Way Could He Serve The Cause Of Human Liberty-by Ceasing To Exist.

For Ten Centuries Christianity, Armed With The Omnipotence Of The Church And State And Opposed By No Competition, Was Able To Deprave, Debase, And Falsify The Mind Of Europe. It Had No Competitors, Because Outside The Church There Was Neither Thinkers Nor Educated Persons. It Alone Taught, It Alone Spoke And Wrote, It Alone Taught.