Who is the monster error?

You want to go to heaven, do you not?

That is when you die―or shuffle off the mortal coil?

Well, why not go to heaven right now, just where you are?

Do not wait a moment if you can help it.

Why―the spirit can have heaven in the body, as well as out of it.

You do not need to get out of it to get into heaven, and if you do not get heaven before you get out of it, you will find it when you do, for as you are, so you will be for a long time to come.

Better hurry a little―you cannot afford to wait.

Why live in hell fifty years, more or less, hoping to find heaven at the other end, when you might find and take it along with you each hour and year you live on earth?

Why―my friends, you do not know what a great big heaven you can make in that length of time, so go right about it this moment, one and all, no matter whether you are a multimillionaire or not, you certainly are able to do something toward making a heaven for yourself. If you do not have any money, you can search for jewels to distribute among your fellow men―or you can do as I used to do, knock down some grinning monster that threatens to destroy the happiness of your brother or sister.

The jewels are truths―the monster is error.

Knock him down, knock him down! I say, and spare not—demolish him root and branch.

From the Spirit of Robert G. Ingersoll