Stuart Robinson, "The Pulpit and Sceptical Culture" (The Princeton Review, Fifty-Fith Year, p. 141):
[The blasphemer and scoffer] gets up novelties in the way of blasphemies for the amusement of the novelty-loving public. By that cheap sort of wit which depends for its effect rather upon the sacredness of the associations in the mind with what is venerable and holy rather than upon the genius of the blasphemer, he burlesques and caricatures the facts and doctrines of the Scriptures. In order that the shock may not be too great to the prejudices of early education, he may at first avoid the subject of Christ, directing his drollery and derision against Moses and the story of creation, or the doctrine of hell. Yet this thin disguise can hide the true object of attack only from the ignorant and thoughtless. For Jesus thoroughly indorsed Moses as the mouthpiece of God He preached ; Moses, expounded Moses, rested His own teaching upon Moses. And more fully and distinctly than any of the inspired teachers did Jesus preach the doctrine of hell. To scoff at Moses and at the doctrine of hell is therefore to scoff at Jesus.
