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The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious…
Quote byVirchand Gandhi · 1864–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York (1895).
English (original)
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.
— Virchand Gandhi
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