In place of all that pitiable lie reality has this to say: the priest a parasitical variety of man who can exist only at the cost of every sound view of life, takes the name of God in vain: he calls that state of human society in which he himself determines the value of all things the kingdom of God he calls the means whereby that state of affairs is attained the will of God with cold blooded cynicism he estimates all peoples, all ages and all individuals by the extent of their subservience or opposition to the power of the priestly order.