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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... ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts . To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired . men ; that slavery , polygamy , wars of conquest and extermination were right , and that there was ...
... ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts . To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired . men ; that slavery , polygamy , wars of conquest and extermination were right , and that there was ...
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... ideas entertained by me , I congratulate myself that calumny is now the pulpit's last resort . The old instruments of torture are kept only to gratify curiosity ; the chains are rusting away , and the demolition of time has allowed even ...
... ideas entertained by me , I congratulate myself that calumny is now the pulpit's last resort . The old instruments of torture are kept only to gratify curiosity ; the chains are rusting away , and the demolition of time has allowed even ...
Síða 13
... idea that all the great and good are dead , that the living are totally depraved , that all pleasures are sins , that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God , that thought is dangerous , that intellectual courage is a crime , that ...
... idea that all the great and good are dead , that the living are totally depraved , that all pleasures are sins , that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God , that thought is dangerous , that intellectual courage is a crime , that ...
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... ideas of others . They are not expected to give even the doubts that may suggest themselves , but are required to walk in the narrow , verdureless path trodden by the ignorance of the past . The forests and fields on either side are ...
... ideas of others . They are not expected to give even the doubts that may suggest themselves , but are required to walk in the narrow , verdureless path trodden by the ignorance of the past . The forests and fields on either side are ...
Síða 18
... ideas upon these great questions . It is much safer for them to quote from the works of the dead . The more vividly they describe the sufferings of the unregenerate , of those who attended theatres and balls , and drank wine in summer ...
... ideas upon these great questions . It is much safer for them to quote from the works of the dead . The more vividly they describe the sufferings of the unregenerate , of those who attended theatres and balls , and drank wine in summer ...
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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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