Lord Byron

,

George Gordon

1788-1824

,
Freethinker

The basis of your religion is injustice.  The Son of God, the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.  This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man’s sin than a school boy’s volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

letter to Francis Hodgson, September 13, 1811

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