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
... but one savior , one inspired book , and but one little narrow grass - grown path that leads to heaven . Such a religion is necessarily uncompromising , unreasoning , aggressive and insolent . Christianity has held all PREFACE . VII.
... but one savior , one inspired book , and but one little narrow grass - grown path that leads to heaven . Such a religion is necessarily uncompromising , unreasoning , aggressive and insolent . Christianity has held all PREFACE . VII.
Síða 15
... 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 worship God seems to be the sum of all the ...
... 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 worship God seems to be the sum of all the ...
Síða 18
... heaven , while happiness prepares the bad for hell ; that the wicked get all their good things in this life , and the good all their evil ; that in this world God punishes the people he loves , and in the next , the ones he hates ; that ...
... heaven , while happiness prepares the bad for hell ; that the wicked get all their good things in this life , and the good all their evil ; that in this world God punishes the people he loves , and in the next , the ones he hates ; that ...
Síða 36
... Heaven and became acquainted with an angel by the name of Gabriel , who was so broad between the eyes that it required three hundred days for a very smart camel to travel the distance . If some man had denied this story we should ...
... Heaven and became acquainted with an angel by the name of Gabriel , who was so broad between the eyes that it required three hundred days for a very smart camel to travel the distance . If some man had denied this story we should ...
Síða 41
... heaven ; that those who look where they are going are sure to miss it , and that only those who voluntarily put out their eyes and implicitly depend upon blindness can surely keep the narrow path . Whoever reads our sacred book is ...
... heaven ; that those who look where they are going are sure to miss it , and that only those who voluntarily put out their eyes and implicitly depend upon blindness can surely keep the narrow path . Whoever reads our sacred book is ...
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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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