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
... 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 fire and fear . Christianity cannot live in peace with any other form of ...
... 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 fire and fear . Christianity cannot live in peace with any other form of ...
Síða 15
... churches , pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell , denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority , the world will be filled with hatred and suffering . To hate man and ...
... churches , pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell , denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority , the world will be filled with hatred and suffering . To hate man and ...
Síða 27
... Church and School . As long as the mutilated records of a barbarous people are placed by priest and professor above the reason of mankind , we shall reap but little benefit from church or school . Instead of dismissing professors for ...
... Church and School . As long as the mutilated records of a barbarous people are placed by priest and professor above the reason of mankind , we shall reap but little benefit from church or school . Instead of dismissing professors for ...
Síða 29
... churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the " harmony of Genesis and Geology . " Like all hypocrites , these men overstate the case to such a ... church becomes a school , every cathedral a SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 29.
... churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the " harmony of Genesis and Geology . " Like all hypocrites , these men overstate the case to such a ... church becomes a school , every cathedral a SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 29.
Síða 30
Robert G. Ingersoll. When every church becomes a school , every cathedral a university , every clergyman a teacher , and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers , then , and not until then , will the dream of poet , patriot ...
Robert G. Ingersoll. When every church becomes a school , every cathedral a university , every clergyman a teacher , and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers , then , and not until then , will the dream of poet , patriot ...
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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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