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and perogatives, all agree that each good Christian will
become on the Day of Resurrection a pure virgin and present
herself as a bride to the "Lamb of God"!
Do you not think, then, that the Christians are right to
believe that the "least" among them is "greater" than all the
Prophets? Do you not think, then, that a sturdy Patagonian
monk and a penitentiary Parisian nun are higher than Adam
and Eve, because the mystery of the Trinity is revealed to
these confused people and not to our first parents who lived in the
Paradise of Allah before their fall? Or, don't you think that this
sort of belief is most unbecoming and undignified in these
lofty times of advanced science and civilization? To claim
that an English prince or an orphan negro is "greater" that
John the Baptist because they are Christians is, to say the
become on the Day of Resurrection a pure virgin and present
herself as a bride to the "Lamb of God"!
Do you not think, then, that the Christians are right to
believe that the "least" among them is "greater" than all the
Prophets? Do you not think, then, that a sturdy Patagonian
monk and a penitentiary Parisian nun are higher than Adam
and Eve, because the mystery of the Trinity is revealed to
these confused people and not to our first parents who lived in the
Paradise of Allah before their fall? Or, don't you think that this
sort of belief is most unbecoming and undignified in these
lofty times of advanced science and civilization? To claim
that an English prince or an orphan negro is "greater" that
John the Baptist because they are Christians is, to say the