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title: "3 God Threatens Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-barrett/the-more-severely-he-struggles-to-hold-on-to-the-primal-face-to-face/)

[William Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-barrett/)

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> [The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/the-god-of-hell-should-be-held-in-loathing-contempt-and-scorn-a-god/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/the-god-of-hell-should-be-held-in-loathing-contempt-and-scorn-a-god-2/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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