If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.