If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible. . . At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world. . . unless it had been a first-class circus.