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When the child asks, "Mother, if God made all things, why did he make the devil?" it would surely be wise and opportune to correct the child's mental picture of a personal anti-God and to take from him his bogey of a "devil."
The sinless Sufferer on the cross, in His oneness with His brethren, felt their wrongdoing His own; acknowledged in His forsakenness that God could have nothing to do with it, for it was anti-God; confessed that it inevitably separated from Him and He felt Himself in such kinship and sympathy with sinning men that He was actually away from God.
A huge fellow, leaning on the handle of a wide-bladed gleaming axe, stood by the side of the block. The trio of Protestants were taken up the steps of the scaffold. Two priests accompanied them. "We do worship God but we will not worship either the Anti-christ, Anti-God, or his image!" It was Ralph who, in ringing fearless tones, replied, the other two responding with: "Amen!
That was really his ultimate emotional reason. His mythology, when he came to paint the world in myths, was Manichean. His creed was an ardent dualism, in which a God and an anti-God contend and make history. But in his mood of revolt it suited him to confuse the names and the symbols.
In the sublime mythology of Prometheus the war of God and anti-God is seen visibly, making the horrors of history. As Jupiter's Furies rend the heart of the merciful Titan chained to his rock on Caucasus, murders and crucifixions are enacted in the world below. The mythical cruelties in the clouds are the shadows of man's sufferings below; and they are also the cause.
They are the personal enemies of God. They have invested Nothingness with substance and personality, and their No-God is an Anti-God. And concerning that abject and ignoble saying, "If there were not a God it would be necessary to invent Him," we shall say nothing.
But to any one whose mind is pervaded by faith in God, a non-ethical universe in conflict with the incomprehensibly ethical soul of the Agnostic, is as incredible as a black horned devil, an active material anti-god with hoofs, tail, pitchfork, and Dunstan-scorched nose complete. To believe completely in God is to believe in the final rightness of all being.
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