And a Christian who ought to love his enemies, is he not guilty of the greatest of crimes, when he inflicts death upon a hostile soldier, of whose disposition he knows nothing: and whom he may, at a single stroke, precipitate into hell?
A Christian soldier is a monster! a non-descript! and Lactantius affirms, that "a Christian cannot be either a soldier, or an accuser to a criminal cause." And, at this day, the Quakers, and Mennonites refuse to carry arms, and, in so doing, they are consistent Christians.
Christianity declares war against the sciences; they are regarded as an obstacle to salvation.

"Science puffeth up." says Paul.

And the fathers of the church, St.Gregory, St.Ambrose, and St.Augustine denounce vehemently astronomy, and geometry.

And Jerome declares, that he was whipped by an angel only for reading that Pagan Cicero.
It has been often remarked, that the most enlightened men are commonly bad Christians.

For independent of its effects on faith, which science is exceedingly apt to subvert, it diverts the Christian from the work of his salvation, which is the only thing needful.