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
... narrow grass-grown path that leads to heaven. unreasoning, aggressive and insolent. Christianity has held all other creeds. Such a religion is necessarily uncompromising, tempt, divided the world into enemies and friends,. PREFACE. V11.
... narrow grass-grown path that leads to heaven. unreasoning, aggressive and insolent. Christianity has held all other creeds. Such a religion is necessarily uncompromising, tempt, divided the world into enemies and friends,. PREFACE. V11.
Síða viii
... with every known recorded fact, so palpably absurd, that every free, unbiased soul is forced to raise the standard of revolt. tempt, divided the world into enemies and friends, perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy. 'VIII PREFACE.
... with every known recorded fact, so palpably absurd, that every free, unbiased soul is forced to raise the standard of revolt. tempt, divided the world into enemies and friends, perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy. 'VIII PREFACE.
Síða 28
... divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know, that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace. just as long as religion ...
... divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know, that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace. just as long as religion ...
Síða 45
... dead? How could these characters span the vast chasm dividing the present from the past, and make it possible for the living still to hear the voices of the dead? TH E PENTATEUCH. HE first five books in our bible. SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES.
... dead? How could these characters span the vast chasm dividing the present from the past, and make it possible for the living still to hear the voices of the dead? TH E PENTATEUCH. HE first five books in our bible. SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES.
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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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