Superstition in All Ages
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A God who arrogates to Himself the right to do evil, is a tyrant ; a tyrant is not a model for men. He ought to be an execrable object in their eyes. Is it not strange that, in order to justify Divinity, they made of Him the most unjust of beings ? As soon as we complain of His conduct, they think to silence us by claiming that God is the Master; which signifies that God, beinj^ the strongest. He is not subjected to ordinary rules. But the right 122 Common Sense, by Jean Meslier.
of the stronge...st is the violation of all rights ; it can pass as a right but in the eyes of a savage conquer- or, who, in the intoxication of his fury, imagines he has the right to do as he pleases with the unfortu- nate ones whom he has conquered ; this barbarous right can appear legitimate only to slaves, who are blind enough to think that everything is allowed to tyrants, who are too strong for them to resist.
By a foolish simplicity, or rather by a plain con- tradiction of terms, do we not see devotees exclaim, amidst the greatest calamities, that the good Lord is the Master ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A God who arrogates to Himself the right to do evil, is a tyrant ; a tyrant is not a model for men. He ought to be an execrable object in their eyes. Is it not strange that, in order to justify Divinity, they made of Him the most unjust of beings ? As soon as we complain of His conduct, they think to silence us by claiming that God is the Master; which signifies that God, beinj^ the strongest. He is not subjected to ordinary rules. But the right 122 Common Sense, by Jean Meslier.
of the stronge...st is the violation of all rights ; it can pass as a right but in the eyes of a savage conquer- or, who, in the intoxication of his fury, imagines he has the right to do as he pleases with the unfortu- nate ones whom he has conquered ; this barbarous right can appear legitimate only to slaves, who are blind enough to think that everything is allowed to tyrants, who are too strong for them to resist.
By a foolish simplicity, or rather by a plain con- tradiction of terms, do we not see devotees exclaim, amidst the greatest calamities, that the good Lord is the Master ?
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