Depravity

When a new post-war

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When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns … Read more

But in the end

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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation – all … Read more

On all the walls,

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On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity–I have letters to make even blindmen see…. I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough–I call it mankind’s single immortal … Read more

I condemn Christianity; I

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I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; … Read more

It’s not what people

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It’s not what people do that scares me. It’s what they hide. It’s the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other’s depravity we’d be more united, we’d be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I’ll assume you’re hiding a million. And … Read more