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 13
... destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear , to do away with the blind wor- ship of the ignoble past , with the idea that all the great and good are dead , that the living are totally depraved , that all pleasures are sins , that ...
... destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear , to do away with the blind wor- ship of the ignoble past , with the idea that all the great and good are dead , that the living are totally depraved , that all pleasures are sins , that ...
Síða 14
... destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power . Why should a believer in God hate an atheist ? Surely the atheist has not injured God , and surely he is human , capable of joy and pain , and entitled to all the rights of man ...
... destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power . Why should a believer in God hate an atheist ? Surely the atheist has not injured God , and surely he is human , capable of joy and pain , and entitled to all the rights of man ...
Síða 33
... destroyed . The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church . Wherever the bible and sword are in partnership , man is a slave . All laws for the purpose of making man worship God , are born of the same spirit that kindled the ...
... destroyed . The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church . Wherever the bible and sword are in partnership , man is a slave . All laws for the purpose of making man worship God , are born of the same spirit that kindled the ...
Síða 36
... destroy all distinction between virtue and vice . We should have said to him , " What do you propose to give us in place of that angel ? We cannot afford to give up an angel of that size for nothing . " We would have insisted that the ...
... destroy all distinction between virtue and vice . We should have said to him , " What do you propose to give us in place of that angel ? We cannot afford to give up an angel of that size for nothing . " We would have insisted that the ...
Síða 53
... destroy the confidence of man in himself to induce him to distrust his own powers of thought , to believe that he was wholly unable to decide any question for himself , and that all human virtue consists in faith and obedience . The ...
... destroy the confidence of man in himself to induce him to distrust his own powers of thought , to believe that he was wholly unable to decide any question for himself , and that all human virtue consists in faith and obedience . The ...
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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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