[The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Seeker CHAPTER XIV 9/19
It seems to me the existence of the S.P.C.A.
proves that hell is either for all of us or for none of us--because of our oneness.
If the suffering of a stray cat becomes our suffering, do you imagine that the minority of the race which Christianity saves could be happy knowing that the great majority lay in torment? "Suppose but two were left in hell--Judas Iscariot and Herbert Spencer--the first great sinner after Jesus and the last of any consequence.
One betrayed his master and the other did likewise, only with far greater subtlety and wickedness--teaching thousands to disbelieve his claims to godhood--to regard Christianity as a crude compound of Greek mythology and Jewish tradition--a thing built of myth and fable.
Even if these two were damned and all the rest were saved--can you not see that a knowledge of their suffering would embitter heaven itself to another hell? Father Riley was good enough to tell us last week of the state of unbaptised infants after death.
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