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If the listener's words were to be relied on, there was no love, no accommodating principle manifested between the two, but a fiery burning zeal, relating to points of such minor importance that a true Christian would blush to hear them mentioned, and the infidel and profane make a handle of them to turn our religion to scorn.
"Yes, they are safe!" exclaimed the count. And Jean Debry, the austere republican, the scoffing infidel, Jean Debry fell upon his knees! "And punish those who have perpetrated this horrible crime!" added Count Goertz, folding his hands, and uttering a fervent prayer.
"But why curse a race in order to necessitate a Saviour?" Clara looked in astonishment at the pale, fixed features before her. A frightened expression came over her own countenance, a look of shuddering horror; and, putting up her wasted hands, as if to ward off some grim phantom, she cried: "Oh, Beulah! what is this? You are not an infidel?"
And suddenly he puffed up his cheeks and furiously began to shake his fist at Foma, as he screamed in a shrill voice: "The fool says in his heart there is no God! I'll go to the bishop! Infidel! You'll get the galleys!" The tumult on the steamer grew, and at the sight of these enraged, perplexed and insulted people, Foma felt himself a fairy-tale giant, slaying monsters.
He was called the most Christian Turk, the most Christian ravager of Christendom, the most Christian barbarian who had perpetrated on Christians outrages of which his infidel allies would have been ashamed, A committee, consisting chiefly of ardent Whigs, was appointed to prepare an address.
Upward of two thousand were either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners, and the two pieces of ordnance brought off as trophies of the victory. Not a Christian lance but was bathed that day in the blood of an infidel.
"Their usual salutation addressed to Christians," says Volney, "is 'good morning; but it is well if it be not accompanied with a Djaour, Kafer, or Kelb, that is, impious, infidel, dog, expressions to which Christians are familiarized."
These were the years when religion was the dominant idea of the western world, when everything, even warfare, was pressed into its service. Instead of devastating their own and their neighbour's country, Christian armies were devastating the Holy Land; doing to the Infidel in the name of their religion what he, in the name of his, had formerly done to them.
I had read of men becoming spiritual castaways after they had lost their anchorage in some great love, and I asked myself what should I do if Martin became an infidel. And when I told myself that I could only save Martin's soul by sacrificing my own I was overwhelmed by a love so great that I thought I could do even that. "Martin! Martin! Forgive me, forgive me," I cried.
Are you throwing stones at Christ and the Christian Cause? Pause, reflect before you answer. Not all the stones are thrown by the Atheist, the Agnostic, the Infidel. No, the most cruel stones, the ones that wound most deeply, are thrown from the pulpit itself. The kiss of Judas strikes deeper than the spear of the Roman legionary; the denial of Peter is more cruel than the Crown of Thorns.
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