If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.