Quote #88

Aaron had learned : from Mr. Fairlow's two-hour sermons on 'The Jealousy of an Angry Jehovah Who Hath Weighed Sinners in the Balance and Found Them Wanting', ...that God was a torturer who punished small boys for sins they might commit later. ~ Ch. 3

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