"For myself I can say, that if there is a God, and He is such a being as the Universalist describes, I can bow before Him and give Him all my heart. He says God is Love, made the world in Love, and in perfect Wisdom, and well adapted to serve the divine purpose. He then made a family, all of them have sinned, and some of them have fallen very low, but God is determined, according to the Universalist, to stand by His family, every one of them, let come what will come, till He makes all of them respectable. This standing by His family, as every true Father ought to do, is what I like in the Universalist's idea of God. But if there is a god, and he has created a family and will at last turn against most of them, and in burning wrath cast them into Hell forever, as traditional Christianity describes, I should hate him-he is not as good as I am, for I propose to stand by my family and every member of it for as long as I live. It is an insult to ask me to love and worship a god who is guilty of doing what we would detest in an earthly father."~Robert Ingersoll (Nicked named "The Great Agnostic.")