To suppose that God Almighty has confined his goodness to this world, to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or faith, are the favorites of heaven exclusively; but these are narrow and bigoted conceptions, which are degrading to a rational nature, and utterly unworthy of God, of whom we should form the most exalted ideas.

Ethan Allen (1738-1789) American businessman, land speculator, revolutionary, writer

Reason, the Only Oracle of Man, ch. 2 sec. 7 (1782)
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