"They have mutilated even our God for us, they have turned everything in their hands against us.

Mark you, mother, God created man in his own image and after his own likeness.

Therefore he is like man if man is like him.

But we have become, not like God, but like wild beasts! In the churches they set up a scarecrow before us.

We have got to change our God, mother; we must cleanse him! They have dressed him up in falsehood and calumny; they have distorted his face in order to destroy our souls!" He talked composedly and very distinctly and intelligibly.