THE DEVIL OUTDONE by George W. Amadon

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1860

THE DEVIL OUTDONE.

By George W. Amadon

IN those portions of God's truth that delineate the last days we read that “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” We suppose this means in plain English that they will get to be as bad as they can be, or as expressed by Scripture, until every imagination of their heart shall be evil and that continually. This was the condition of the earth before the flood, and Christ says it will be so when the Son of Man is revealed. We should judge by the following extract that certain portions of the world have perfectly fulfilled the prediction, and are as fully prepared for the wrath of God Almighty as they ever can be. Read it if you can without shuddering. It came from the unholy lips of one Joseph Treat, in a speech at the Paine celebration in Cincinnati, Sunday, Jan. 30, 1860.

G. W. A.

“There is no God! God is the first, great eternal mistake of the Age of Reason! God is the grand, pivotal mistake of all systems! God is the great central Superstition, round which all other Superstitions cling! God is the sole foundation of Bibles, Sabbaths, Priesthoods, Religions, Resurrections, Judgments, Heavens, Hells, Spirits, Spirit Worlds, all! I strike home at this root.” “If there is a God, men can know it; but nobody does know it. If there is a God, there must be proof of the fact; but there is no proof.” “Not one argument—that is an argument—in favor of a God, has ever been framed; and not one can be.” “There is no need of a God! There is nothing for a God to do.” “Call for a God when there is occasion for a God—but the Eternal Universe has none! And what there is no occasion for does not exist, and God does not exist!” “There is no room for a God! There is no place where God could be.” “God is an evil! He is the evil under which the earth has always been groaning.” “A good God is a contradiction. Any God dwarfs, enslaves, dehumanizes. A man and a God cannot live in the same universe!” “God is the curse of curses!” “God will be blotted out! It is written in the book of fate! It is the future of this planet! Over the whole extent of this wide, wide world—among all its unnumbered millions of inhabitants, and during almost endless ages that shall roll, there will be no God! God will be lost out of the history of the race. Eternal generations will come and go, and never hear of a God, nor know that ever preceding generations talked about one! God will be swallowed up in an infinite oblivion! His very name will die out of human language!” “No-God will be the world's millennium!” “Then will indeed be proclaimed that everlasting gospel, ‘Peace on earth, good will to men,’ when all the dwellers of earth shall lift up their voice together, and say with a shout, ‘God is dead, and we are glad of it!’”