Yes, to be sure, it is a fact that there was a man who with the years forgot
his childish fear of God, was swindled out of the best, and was taken in by that which was most insolent.
Well, ignoring your
childish ad hominem, why would you kowtow before a shallow, vain and unjust
god if it were not out
of fear of punishment or greed for the afterlife?