'Really I am shocked to hear you speak so dreadfully of Christianity.' 'Why should you be shocked to hear what you are not shocked to say?' 'But atheism is so revolting.' 'But Christianity is so revolting.' 'How dangerous is it for atheism to corrupt the minds of children.' 'How pernicious is it for Christian doctrines to corrupt the thoughts of infancy.' 'But you are only asserting.' 'Are you doing otherwise? I sometimes think that Christians would be more respectful in their speech if the same language could be applied to them with impunity which they apply to others.' 'But, my dear sir, the language of the atheist is so shocking to Christian feeling.' 'And, my dear sir, has it never occurred to you that the language of the Christian is shocking to atheistical feeling?' 'Atheists have a right to their opinions, I allow, but not to publish them.' 'I shall think you speak reasonably when you permit the same rule to be applied to the Christian.' 'But you really cannot be an atheist?' 'And you say this who have been a party to imprisoning me here for being one! If you believe yourself, go and demand my liberation.' 'Ah! when you come to die you will wish that you were a Christian.' 'Can it be that I shall wish to hold a creed that I distrust--one that leads me to deny another the liberty I claim for myself? If to be capable of looking back with satisfaction on conduct like this is to be a Christian, may I never die the death of the righteous, and may my last end never be like his.'