Rev. Marion ShutterI would rather be a heathen, living in a land where the name of Christ
has never been heard, where his views of the Father have never been
promulgated -- a heathen bowing before the hideous deities of my own
brain and hands -- than to believe that the character of our Father in
heaven is such as the popular creed has made it, a God who is so unjust
or indifferent as to permit sin and suffering always to exist, or so
helpless that he cannot prevent it.
— Marion Shutter, from his sermon Endless Punishment from the Standpoint of Reason, 1890

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