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God The Invisible King-Part6_H. G. WELLS (1866-1946)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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priestcraft and priestly power release an aggressive and narrow

disposition to a recklessness of suffering and a hatred of liberty



that surely exceeds the badness of any other sort of men.

8. THE CHILDREN'S GOD



Children do not naturally love God. They have no great capacity for

an idea so subtle and mature as the idea of God. While they are



still children in a home and cared for, life is too kind and easy

for them to feel any great need of God. All things are still



something God-like. . . .

The true God, our modern minds insist upon believing, can have no



appetite for unnatural praise and adoration. He does not clamour

for the attention of children. He is not like one of those senile



uncles who dream of glory in the nursery, who love to hear it said,

"The children adore him." If children are loved and trained to



truth, justice, and mutualforbearance, they will be ready for the

true God as their needs bring them within his scope. They should be



left to their innocence, and to their trust in the innocence of the

world, as long as they can be. They should be told only of God as a



Great Friend whom some day they will need more and understand and

know better. That is as much as most children need. The phrases of



religion put too early into their mouths may become a cant,

something worse than blasphemy.



Yet children are sometimes very near to God. Creative passion stirs

in their play. At times they display a divinesimplicity. But it



does not follow that therefore they should be afflicted with

theological formulae or inducted into ceremonies and rites that they



may dislike or misinterpret. If by any accident, by the death of a

friend or a distressing story, the thought of death afflicts a



child, then he may begin to hear of God, who takes those that serve

him out of their slain bodies into his shining immortality. Or if



by some menial treachery, through some prowling priest, the whisper

of Old Bogey reaches our children, then we may set their minds at



ease by the assurance of his limitless charity. . . .

With adolescence comes the desire for God and to know more of God,



and that is the most suitable time for religious talk and teaching.

9. GOD IS NOT SEXUAL



In the last two or three hundred years there has been a very

considerable disentanglement of the idea of God from the complex of



sexual thought and feeling. But in the early days of religion the

two things were inseparably bound together; the fury of the Hebrew



prophets, for example, is continually proclaiming the extraordinary

"wrath" of their God at this or that little dirtiness or



irregularity or breach of the sexual tabus. The ceremony of

circumcision is clearly indicative of the original nature of the



Semitic deity who developed into the Trinitarian God. So far as

Christianity dropped this rite, so far Christianity disavowed the



old associations. But to this day the representative Christian

churches still make marriage into a mystical sacrament, and, with



some exceptions, the Roman communion exacts the sacrifice of

celibacy from its priesthood, regardless of the mischievousness and



maliciousness that so often ensue. Nearly every Christian church

inflicts as much discredit and injustice as it can contrive upon the



illegitimate child. They do not treat illegitimate children as

unfortunate children, but as children with a mystical and an



incurable taint of SIN. Kindly easy-going Christians may resent




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