[The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Seeker CHAPTER IV 15/16
And so it will be until this materialism of separation is repudiated: until we turn seriously to the belief that men are truly brothers, not one of whom can be long happy while any other suffers. Come, Grandad, let us give up this God of Moses.
Doubtless he was good enough for the early Jews, but man has always had to make God in his own image, and you and I need a better one, for we both surpass this one in all spiritual values--in love, in truth, in justice, in common decency--as much as Jesus surpassed the unrepentant thief at his side.
Remember that an honest, fearless search for truth has led to all the progress we can measure over the brutes.
Why must it lose the soul? BERNAL. (From the Reverend Allan Delcher to Bernal Linford.) My boy, I shall not believe you are sane until I have seen you face to face.
I cannot believe you have fallen a victim to Universalism, which is like the vale of Siddim, full of slime-pits.
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