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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... infinite Intelligence, justice, and l\-iercy, by violating maidens and by butchering babes. To me it seemed more reasonable that savage men had made these laws ; and I endeavored in a lecture, entitled “ Some contradictions, and ...
... infinite Intelligence, justice, and l\-iercy, by violating maidens and by butchering babes. To me it seemed more reasonable that savage men had made these laws ; and I endeavored in a lecture, entitled “ Some contradictions, and ...
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... infinite conand verified the awful declaration of its founder—a declaration that wet with blood the sword he came to bring, and made the horizon of a thousand years lurid with the fagots' flames. Too great praise challenges attention ...
... infinite conand verified the awful declaration of its founder—a declaration that wet with blood the sword he came to bring, and made the horizon of a thousand years lurid with the fagots' flames. Too great praise challenges attention ...
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... by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with state legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to. 3 sonn msrnxns or MOSES. 33.
... by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with state legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to. 3 sonn msrnxns or MOSES. 33.
Síða 39
... of their barbaric ancestors, but they have made none. Nearly all these religions are intensely selfish. Each one was made by some contemptible little nation that regarded itself as of almost infinite importance,. SOME MISTAKEQ OF MOSES. 39.
... of their barbaric ancestors, but they have made none. Nearly all these religions are intensely selfish. Each one was made by some contemptible little nation that regarded itself as of almost infinite importance,. SOME MISTAKEQ OF MOSES. 39.
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Robert G. Ingersoll. temptible little nation that regarded itself as of almost infinite importance, and looked upon the other nations as beneath the notice of their god. In all these countries it was a crime to deny the sacred records ...
Robert G. Ingersoll. temptible little nation that regarded itself as of almost infinite importance, and looked upon the other nations as beneath the notice of their god. In all these countries it was a crime to deny the sacred records ...
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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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