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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... hundred times , and many of the clergy are still engaged in the great work . To keep these rev- erend gentlemen from wasting their talents on the mistakes of reporters and printers , I concluded to publish the principal points in all my ...
... hundred times , and many of the clergy are still engaged in the great work . To keep these rev- erend gentlemen from wasting their talents on the mistakes of reporters and printers , I concluded to publish the principal points in all my ...
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... hundred years . Their congregations are not grand enough , nor sufficiently civilized , to be willing that the poor preachers shall think for themselves . They are not employed for that purpose . Investigation is regarded as a dangerous ...
... hundred years . Their congregations are not grand enough , nor sufficiently civilized , to be willing that the poor preachers shall think for themselves . They are not employed for that purpose . Investigation is regarded as a dangerous ...
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... hundred days for a very smart camel to travel the distance . If some man had denied this story we should probably have denounced him as a dangerous person , one who was endeavoring to undermine the foundations of society , and to ...
... hundred days for a very smart camel to travel the distance . If some man had denied this story we should probably have denounced him as a dangerous person , one who was endeavoring to undermine the foundations of society , and to ...
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... hundreds of years . But , as all the churches still insist that he was the author , that he wrote even an account of his own death and burial , let us speak of him as though these books were in fact written by him . As the christians ...
... hundreds of years . But , as all the churches still insist that he was the author , that he wrote even an account of his own death and burial , let us speak of him as though these books were in fact written by him . As the christians ...
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... hundreds of years to 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 ...
... hundreds of years to 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 ...
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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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