“I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian church the most terrible of all the accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. […] he Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul […], the cross as the distinguishing mark of the most subterranean conspiracy ever heard of,—against health, beauty, well-being, intellect, kindness of soul—against life itself…”