5/21 It is not good; it is an evil. It is right to shun evil; it is the only right. The other is a horrid fable--a lie concocted by priests and devils!" "Suppose you loved someone--me, for instance--and I was dead, and you knew quite certainly that by dying you would come to where I was--would you call death good or evil ?" He demurred. He did not want to admit belief in anything connected with the doctrine of submission. We go through it to get the things we really want most." "I don't believe in a religion that calls suffering better than happiness; but I know you do." "No, I don't," she said, "and God does not; and people who talk as if He did not want us to seek happiness--even our own happiness--are making to themselves a graven image. |