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I Was Brought Up To Believe That The Christian God Wasn't A Scared And Compromising Public Servant, But The Creator Of The Whole Merciless Truth, And I Reckon That Training Spoiled Me - I Actually Took My Teachers Seriously!

Indians, Of Course, Have No "theology," And Indeed No Word For The System Of Credulity In Which The White Priests Arrange For God, Who Must Be Entirely Bewildered By It, A Series Of Excuses For His Failures.

Upon This Theology He Rarely Pondered. The Kernel Of His Practical Religion Was That It Was Respectable, And Beneficial To One's Business, To Be Seen Going To Services; That The Church Kept The Worst Elements From Being Still Worse; And That The Pastor's Sermons, However Dull They Might Seem At The Time Of Taking, Yet Had A Voodooistic Power Which 'did A Fellow Good-- Kept Him In Touch With Higher Things.

Don't Be A Writer. Writing Is An Escape From Something. You Be A Scientist.

Cure The Evils Of Democracy By The Evils Of Fascism! Funny Therapeutics! I've Heard Of Their Curing Syphilis By Giving The Patient Malaria, But I've Never Heard Of Their Curing Malaria By Giving The Patient Syphilis.