Ocupation: Novelist
Life: January 31, 1872 - September 9, 1956
Birthday: January 31
Death: September 9
As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful.
source: Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”
topic: People, Humanity, Religion, Regretful, Relatives And Friends