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The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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