Some Mistakes of MosesCosimo, Inc., 1. jan. 2009 - 272 síður As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. First published in 1879, this audaciously titled volume is a collection of short essays challenging the concept of biblical inerrancy. Focusing on the first five books of the Bible, once popularly believed to have been written by Moses, Ingersoll highlights the savageries, absurdities, injustices, and scientific inaccuracies of the writings considered noble and true by so many. As enjoyable a read as it is a provocative one, this is the lost classic of a true American original. |
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... Egyptians , then we must conclude that he learned it from them . Should we imagine that he was divinely inspired because he gave to the Jews what the Egyptians had given him ? The Egyptian priests taught first , that a god created the ...
... Egyptians , then we must conclude that he learned it from them . Should we imagine that he was divinely inspired because he gave to the Jews what the Egyptians had given him ? The Egyptian priests taught first , that a god created the ...
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... Egyptians the principal parts of his narra- tive , making such changes and additions as were necessary to satisfy the peculiar superstitions of his own people . If some man at the present day should assert that he had received from God ...
... Egyptians the principal parts of his narra- tive , making such changes and additions as were necessary to satisfy the peculiar superstitions of his own people . If some man at the present day should assert that he had received from God ...
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... Egyptians , and not from God . If we take the account as the absolute truth and use it for the purpose of determining the value of modern thought , scientific advancement becomes impossible . And even if the account of the Creation as ...
... Egyptians , and not from God . If we take the account as the absolute truth and use it for the purpose of determining the value of modern thought , scientific advancement becomes impossible . And even if the account of the Creation as ...
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TUESDAY | 63 |
WEDNESDAY | 67 |
THE Garden | 121 |
THE FALL | 128 |
DAmpness | 138 |
BACCHUS AND BABEL | 169 |
FAITH IN FILTH | 176 |
THE HEBREWS | 181 |
THE PLAGUES | 190 |
THE FLIGHT | 210 |
THURSDAY | 72 |
HE MADE THE STARS Also | 81 |
FRIDAY | 84 |
SATURDAY | 87 |
LET US MAKE MAN | 92 |
SUNDAY ΙΟΙ XV THE NECESSITY FOR A GOOD MEMORY | 108 |
CONFESS AND AVOID | 241 |
INSPIRED SLAVERY | 245 |
INSPIRED Marriage | 250 |
INSPIRED War | 253 |
INSPIRED RELIGIOUS LIBERTY | 256 |
CONCLUSION | 262 |
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