How could people with such feelings labor to improve a world they
hated? How could they be in the least interested in social or
political reforms when they were constantly repeating to themselves--

I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger--
I can tarry, I can tarry, but a night.

That these same people should now claim not only a part of the credit
for the many improvements, but all of it--saying that, but for their
religion the "world would now have been a hell," [Footnote: Rev. Frank
Gunsaulus, of the Central Church, Chicago. See A New Catechism.--M. M.
Mangasarian.] is really a little too much for even the most serene
temperament.

Which of the religions has persecuted as long and as relentlessly as
Christianity?

Which of the many faiths of the world has opposed Science as
stubbornly and as bitterly as Christianity?

In the name of what other prophets have more people been burned at the
stake than in the names of Jesus and Moses?

What other revelation has given rise to so many sects, hostile and
irreconcilable, as the Christian?

Which religion has furnished as many effective texts for political
oppression, polygamy, slavery, and the subjection of woman as the
religion of Jesus and Paul?