Hellish work?

When men and women use their minds to condemn the good inherent in every mortal born through God's Holy Law, they have placed upon their own souls the judgment that cannot fail to burn with almost the same torturing horrors, as the pitiless work of the devil they are serving when they create a hell in their own mind by condemning forever a soul linked forever to the soul of the Universe. 

This has placed in the lowest depths of despair many men and women who are today honoured and even sanctified by mortals for having done what they supposed great work for their God. 

But could I lift the veil of the lower realms you would see and hear the victims of their own ignorance cry to heaven to drown the cries of their victims and open their eyes to the light, which their misjudgment had placed beneath their feet.

You may believe I am drawing a fancy picture, my dear friends, but for the love of yourself if not your fellow man, judge not what you do not believe, nor condemn not what is not absolutely wicked in the light of human kindness. 

Then remember that if man is capable of kindness and love, the Creator of the Universe is incapable of less love and kindness, and you are only a weak and ignorant vessel, touched with a spark for greater light, and when you wilfully destroy a human body you have done the utmost in your power. 

The destruction of the soul is beyond your power, but you can so blacken your own soul by the desire to send others to your imaginary hell, that when you throw aside your mortal clothing you will see your soul marked with your evil intentions and hellish work, and ages may find you reaping, as you have sown, the seeds of hate and malice, and your victims reaping in your errors all the joys of eternal love in the mansions far above.

—Robert G. Ingersoll in Spirit