“If I firmly believed, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences the eternal destiny of others, then religion would mean everything to me. I would cast away earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as folly, and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity… I would take thought for the morrow of eternity alone. I would esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffering… ”
Read more of this short quote (it’s only one paragraph) and allow this challenge from an atheist in 1787 to inspire us to examine our hearts today and see whether or not we are really living up to what we profess to believe.
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