Now I Want You To Tell Me What Is The Difference Between
Our Religion And Yours."
I explained the matter as well as I knew how, and added, somewhat
maliciously, that the main difference was his religion was a corrupt
form of Christianity and ours a pure one.
This had no effect on him; he went on smoking and staring at the sky
as if he hadn't heard me. Then he began again: "Now I know. These
differences are nothing to me, and though I was curious to know what
they were, they are not worth talking about, because, as I know, all
religions are false."
"What did he mean - how did he know?" I asked, very much surprised.
"The priests tell us," he replied, "that we must believe and live a
religious life in this world to be saved. Your priests tell you the
same, and as there is no other world and we have no souls, all they
say must be false. You see all this with your eyes," he continued,
waving his hands to indicate the whole visible world. "And when you
shut them or go blind you see no more. It is the same with our brains.
We think of a thousand things and remember, and when the brain decays
we forget everything, and we die, and everything dies with us. Have
not the cattle eyes to see and brains to think and remember too? And
when they die no priest tells us that they have a soul and have to go
to purgatory, or wherever he likes to send them.
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