I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.