He knows we have a conscience, he knows that conscience is often busy, he knows that we fully believe that some day we must die, and that after death will come the judgment, and he sees therefore that we shall not be satisfied without some kind of religion.

So Satan tries to tempt us to the Gerizim temple.

Serve God by all means, he cries, but serve the world too.

Go to church, say your prayers, have a fair polish of Sunday religion; it is decent, it is respectable, it is what is expected of you.

But yet, at the very same time, serve the world, please yourself.