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6. MODERN IDEAS OF SIN AND DAMNATION



7. THE IDEA OF A CHURCH



THE ENVOY









PREFACE





This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious

belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it

is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a

profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in

its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for

the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several

particulars opposed to his own. The writer will be found to be

sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling. Nevertheless it is

well to prepare the prospective reader for statements that may jar

harshly against deeply rooted mental habits. It is well to warn him

at the outset that the departure from accepted beliefs is here no

vague scepticism, but a quite sharply defined objection to dogmas