The terrible threat of hell, the threat that if T did not do certain things would be Dasned on a bron for ever, would have haunt. my childhood only for the fact that I refused to consider it full Thad other things to consider, in-eluding lessons, and marbles and mackerel fishing in Dublin Bay. Also, and at the bottom of my mind, had the feeling that the threat of eternal punishment for finite sina was.a bogey put up to frighten me, not by God, but by my elders and betters: Tin the course of Tony years 1! have not altered this opinion, substituting for elders and betters the Hexny be Vine time the religion of fear has departed for many of us, and given place to a now religion which teaches us that though a God surely exists, we can by no meal visualize Him.
Tt was the as a Person, a superior sort clergyman with the attribute of a magistrate and a schoolmaster, a hanging judge and a loving Father, lat Tam sure has been account:
for a great deal of the growth of disbelief and the birth of the age of reason among ordinary men. Disbelief in the conventional creed of our forefathers, belief on lines more rational and understandable.
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