“No evil comes from the fear of hell, no good comes from the promise of heaven.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)
“[Man] is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.”
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