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They act accordingly;
that is, they distil the morality of their creators which I consider a
noxious emanation. The classic gods were different. They were invented
by intellectualists who felt themselves capable of maintaining a kind
of comradeship with their deities. Men and gods were practically on a
level. They walked hand in hand over the earth. These gods belonged to
what one might call the horizontal or downstairs variety."
"And those others?"
"Oh, they are the upstairs or vertical type. They live overhead. Why
overhead? Because they have been created by the proletariat. The
proletariat loves to humiliate itself. Therefore they manufacture a god
who approves of grovelling, a god who can look down upon them. They
exalt this deity to an infinite degree in point of goodness and
distance, and in so doing they inevitably abase themselves. Now I
disapprove of grovelling. That means I disapprove of upstairs gods."
"Upstairs gods--"
"If you walk into my front door as a distinguished visitor I am happy
to show you the place.


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