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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... certainly would not ask the brave sailor who volunteered to go aloft, what his opinion was on the five points of Calvinism. Our government has nothing to do with religion. It is neither christian nor pagan; it is secular. But as long as ...
... certainly would not ask the brave sailor who volunteered to go aloft, what his opinion was on the five points of Calvinism. Our government has nothing to do with religion. It is neither christian nor pagan; it is secular. But as long as ...
Síða 33
... passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with state legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to. 3 sonn msrnxns or MOSES. 33.
... passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with state legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to. 3 sonn msrnxns or MOSES. 33.
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Robert G. Ingersoll. partnership with state legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and ...
Robert G. Ingersoll. partnership with state legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and ...
Síða 39
... Certainly all cannot be right; and as it would require a life time to investigate the claims of these various systems, it is hardly fair to damn a man forever, simply because he happens to believe the wrong one. All these religions were ...
... Certainly all cannot be right; and as it would require a life time to investigate the claims of these various systems, it is hardly fair to damn a man forever, simply because he happens to believe the wrong one. All these religions were ...
Síða 42
... certainly as though we disobeyed its every word. We have no right to weigh it in the scales of reason——to test it by the laws of nature, or the facts of observation and experience. To do this, we are told, is to put ourselves above the ...
... certainly as though we disobeyed its every word. We have no right to weigh it in the scales of reason——to test it by the laws of nature, or the facts of observation and experience. To do this, we are told, is to put ourselves above the ...
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TUESDAY | 63 |
WEDNESDAY | 67 |
THE FALL | 115 |
DAMINEss I38 XIX BACCHUS AND BAEEL I69 XX FAITH IN F ILTH I6 | 169 |
THE HEBREWS | 184 |
THE PLAGUES | 190 |
THE FLIGHT | 210 |
CONFESS AND AVOID | 241 |
INSPIRED SLAVERY | 245 |
INSPIRED MARRIAGE | 250 |
THURSDAY HE MADE THE STARS ALSO | 72 |
LET Us MAKE MAN | 92 |
SUNDAY I01 XV THE N EcEssITY FOR A GooD MEMORY | 101 |
THE GARDEN | 109 |
INsPIRED WAR | 253 |
INSPIRED RELIGIOUS LIBERTY | 256 |
CoNcLUsIoN | 262 |
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| Titill | Some Mistakes of Moses |
| Höfundur | Robert G. Ingersoll |
| Útgefandi | Cosimo, Inc., 2009 |
| ISBN | 1605209074, 9781605209074 |
| Length | 272 síður |
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