Let us first test the justice of our laws, divine and human: the question of their usefulness we will deal with later.
CHAPTER ONE—THE LAWS OF GOD
DIVINE law says that certain acts are good, and that certain acts are evil; and that God will reward those who do well, and will punish those who do ill. And we are told that God will so act because God is just.
But I claim that God cannot justly punish those, who disobey, nor reward those who obey His laws.
Religious people tell us that God is "The Great First Cause": that God created all things—mankind, the universe, nature and all her laws. Who is answerable for a thing that is caused: he who causes it, or he who does not cause it?
He who causes it is answerable. And God is "The First Great Cause" of all things. And the cause of all things is answerable for all things.
If God created all things He must have created the evil as well as the good.
Who, then, is responsible for good and evil? Only God, for He made them.