Blindness, epilepsy, leprosy, madness, fall like a dreadful blight
upon a myriad of God's children, and the Heavenly Father gives neither
guidance nor consolation. Only man helps man. Only man pities;
only man _tries_ to save.

Millions of harmless women have been burned as witches. God, our
Heavenly Father, has power to save them. He allows them to suffer
and die.

God knew that those women were being tortured and burnt on a false
charge. He knew that the infamous murders were in His name. He knew
that the whole fabric of crime was due to the human reading of His
"revelation" to man. He could have saved the women; He could have
enlightened their persecutors; He could have blown away the terror,
the cruelty, and the ignorance of His priests and worshippers with
a breath.

And He was silent. He allowed the armies of poor women to be
tortured and murdered in His name. Is it not so?

Will you, then, compare the Heavenly Father with a father among
men? Is there any earthly father who would allow his children
to suffer as God allows Man to suffer? If a man had knowledge
and power to prevent or to abolish war and ignorance and hunger
and disease; if a man had the knowledge and the power to abolish
human error and human suffering and human wrong and did not do it,
we should call him an inhuman monster, a cruel fiend. Is it not so?

But God has knowledge and power, and we are asked to regard Him as
a Heavenly Father, and a God of infinite wisdom, and infinite mercy,