Ubiquity

.—It is curious to hear priests talk of the ubiquity of the Deity, and yet at the same time furiously deny his material existence. What is this in fact but denying his existence at all? For, if the Deity is a spirit, the Deity is nothing, or a non-entity; for a spirit is nothing which can either be described or pencilled. Therefore there is no God (according to their dogmas) unless it can be supposed that there is an immaterial something floating about, which however occupies no space, has no parts, no solidity, extension, nor any other properties of matter, and yet this nothing is something, and possesses volition to real action. Priests only make this problem; they alone can solve it. However they may reason away any difficulties of this kind; they can never, with any face, deny that there is in England a ubiquity of priests who cringe, fawn, and tyrannize; that there is an ubiquity of spies and informers, who live by calumny and perjury; an ubiquity of loyal magistrates who support them; and lastly, an ubiquity of treasury gold which supports them all.