A Credo

This is close to any religious beliefs I might have. From Bulwer Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii: The gods! Speak not thus vaguely; perchance there is but one god! My brother! What if the sublime faith of the Nazarene be true? What if God be a monarch- One-invisible-Alone? What if these numerous countless deities whose altars fill the earth, be but evil demons, seeking to wean us from the true creed? This may be the case, Ione! Alas! can we believe it? or if we believed, would it not be a melancholy faith? answered the Neapolitan. What! all this beautiful world made only human!-the mountain disenchanted of its Oread-the waters of their Nymph-that beautiful prodicality of faith, which makes everything divine, consecrating the meanest flowers, bearing celestial whispers in the faintest breeze-wouldst thou deny this, and make the earth mere dust and clay? No, Apaecides; all that is brightest in our hearts is that very credulity which peoples the universe with godsl