Now we see how little room there is for Freethought in this world of law. Let us introduce into the world a fact; let us introduce the idea of a God; let us suppose for the sake of argument that there is a God. Can it be a matter of indifference how he feels toward us, and how we should feel and act toward him? How can there be a possibility of thought without consequences as regards God, if there be no possibility of thought without consequences as regards the very least of God’s works? Does it make no difference to us whether he is an Almighty tyrant or a father to us, whether or not he can suspend the terrible laws of nature which we dread? Can we hear about this God, and not wish to learn all about him? Can there be anything more absurd than the saying, Let us have religion and no theology? Is that more sensible than to say, Let us have sun, moon, and stars, and no astronomy; let us have plants and no botany; let us have the earth and no geology? If God be a fact, there must certainly come theology out of that fact. As geology grows out of the fact with which it deals, so does theology grow out of a fact. Of all the errors of the time there cannot be a greater absurdity than a religion without theology, for every religion teaches our obligations to a higher being. If there be a God, there must be a theology. I will ask you what is this creed of Christendom? It is nearly all the assertion of facts: “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into hell, the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty: from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.”