CHAPTER XIX

"Question. What is God? Answer. God is a word used to designate an imaginary being which people of themselves have devised. Q. Is it true that God has never been revealed? A. As there is no God, He could not reveal himself. Q. What is heaven? A. Heaven is an imaginary place which churches have devised as a charm to entice their believers. Q. How did man originate? A. Just as did animals; by evolution from their lower kinds. Q. Has man an immortal soul as Christianity teaches? A. Man has no soul; it is only an imagination. Q. Who is Jesus Christ? A. Jesus Christ is the son of a Jewish girl called Mary. Q. Is he the son of God? A. There is no God, therefore there can be no God's son. Q. Did Christ rise from the dead as Christianity teaches? A. The report about Christ rising from the dead is a fable. Q. Is it true that after Christ's death the Apostles received the Holy Ghost? A. It is not; the Apostles had imbibed too freely of wine and their dizzy heads imagined all sorts of queer things. Q. Did Christ ascend into heaven? A. He did not; what the church teaches is a nonsensical fable, because there is no heaven, and there was no place to ascend to. Q. Will Christ come to this earth? A. He will not because no dead person can come back. Q. Will Christ return on judgment day? A. There will be no judgment day; that is all a fable so that preachers could scare people and hold them in their grasp. Man has no soul, neither had Christ a soul. All these things have been invented by the church. Q. What is the Holy Spirit? A. The Holy Spirit is an imagination existing only in the minds of crazy religious people. Q. Is Christianity desirable? A. Christianity is not advantageous to us, but is harmful, because it makes us spiritual cripples. By its teachings of bliss after death it deceives the people. Christianity is the greatest obstacle to the progress of mankind, therefore it is the duty of every citizen to help wipe out Christianity. All churches are impudent humbugs. Q. Is there communion of saints? A. No, because there is no God, no saints, no soul, and therefore our prayers are wholly useless, and only a waste of time, which should be spent in more useful things. Q. What is our duty when we have learned that there is no God? A. We should teach this knowledge to others. Q. Should we take the name of God in vain? A. Yes, because the name of God has no meaning."