I believe in man,
\nmaker of himself
\nand inventor of all science.
\nAnd in myself, his manifestation,
\nand captain of my psyche;
\nand that I should not suffer anything painful or unpleasant.
\nAnd in a vague, evolving deity,
\nthe future-begotten child of man;
\nconceived by the spirit of progress,
\nborn of emergent variants;
\nwho shall kick down the ladder by which he rose
\nand tell history to go to hell.
\nWho shall some day take off from earth
\nand be jet-propelled into the heavens;
\nand sit exalted above all worlds,
\nman the master almighty.
\nAnd I believe in the spirit of progress,
\nwho spake by Shaw and the Fabians;
\nand in a modern, administrative, ethical, and social organization;
\nin the isolation of saints,
\nthe treatment of complexes,
\njoy through health,
\nand destruction of the body by cremation
\n(with music while it burns),
\nand then I’ve had it.<\/p>\n
–Dorothy Sayers, Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World: A Selection of Essays<\/b> (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, Trade Paperback edition 1969)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I believe in man, maker of himself and inventor of all science. And in myself, his manifestation, and captain of my psyche; and that I should not suffer anything painful or unpleasant. And in a vague, evolving deity, the future-begotten…<\/span><\/p>\n