I Cannot Follow You Christians;

On The Cross The Jesus Of The Four Gospels, Who Was God, Cried Out My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? God Cannot Forsake Himself, Jesus Was God Himself. Yet God Forsook Jesus, And The Latter Cried Out To Know Why He Was Forsaken. Any Able Divine Will Explain That Of Course He Knew, And That He Was Not Forsaken. The Explanation Renders It Difficult To Believe The Dying Cry, And The Passage Becomes One Of The Mysteries Of The Holy Christian Religion, Which, Unless A Man Rightly Believe, Without Doubt He Shall Perish Everlastingly.

I Know Not What You Mean By God; The Word God Is To Me A Sound Conveying No Clear Or Distinct Affirmation.

A Ground Frequently Taken By Christian Theologians Is That The Progress And Civilization Of The World Are Due To Christianity; And The Discussion Is Complicated By The Fact That Many Eminent Servants Of Humanity Have Been Nominal Christians, Of One Or Other Of The Sects. My Allegation Will Be That The Special Services Rendered To Human Progress By These Exceptional Men Have Not Been In Consequence Of Their Adhesion To Christianity, But In Spite Of It, And That The Specific Points Of Advantage To Human Kind Have Been In Ratio Of Their Direct Opposition To Precise Biblical Enactments.

Without Free Speech No Search For Truth Is Possible; Without Free Speech No Discovery Of Truth Is Useful; Without Free Speech Progress Is Checked, And The Nations No Longer March Forward Towards The Nobler Life Which The Future Holds For Man. Better A Thousandfold Abuse Of Free Speech Than Denial Of Free Speech. The Abuse Dies In A Day; But The Denial Stays The Life Of The People And Entombs The Hope Of The Race.

I Cannot Follow You Christians; For You Try To Crawl Through Your Life Upon Your Knees, While I Stride Through Mine On My Feet.