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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Síða vii
... allowed even the dungeons of the Inquisition to be visited by light . The church , impotent and malicious , regrets , not the abuse , but the loss of her power , and seeks to hold by false- hood what she gained by cruelty and force , by ...
... allowed even the dungeons of the Inquisition to be visited by light . The church , impotent and malicious , regrets , not the abuse , but the loss of her power , and seeks to hold by false- hood what she gained by cruelty and force , by ...
Síða viii
... allowed to read the bible as we do all other books , we would admire its beauties , treasure its worthy thoughts , and account for all its absurd , grotesque and cruel things , by saying that its authors lived in rude , barbaric times ...
... allowed to read the bible as we do all other books , we would admire its beauties , treasure its worthy thoughts , and account for all its absurd , grotesque and cruel things , by saying that its authors lived in rude , barbaric times ...
Síða 16
... allowed to read and think for themselves . They are taught like parrots , and the best are those who repeat , with the fewest mistakes , the sentences they have been taught . They sit like owls upon some dead limb of the tree of ...
... allowed to read and think for themselves . They are taught like parrots , and the best are those who repeat , with the fewest mistakes , the sentences they have been taught . They sit like owls upon some dead limb of the tree of ...
Síða 22
... allowed to grow - to have sunlight and air . They should no longer be chained and tied to confessions of faith , to mouldy books and musty creeds . Thousands of ministers are anxious to give their honest thoughts . The hands of wives ...
... allowed to grow - to have sunlight and air . They should no longer be chained and tied to confessions of faith , to mouldy books and musty creeds . Thousands of ministers are anxious to give their honest thoughts . The hands of wives ...
Síða 32
... allowed to settle such things for himself, and should he decide contrary to the law and will of God, let him settle the matter with God. The people ought to be wise enough to select as their officers men who know something of political ...
... allowed to settle such things for himself, and should he decide contrary to the law and will of God, let him settle the matter with God. The people ought to be wise enough to select as their officers men who know something of political ...
Efni
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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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