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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... knew more than all the great minds of his country , whether he was so much wiser than his fathers ? We would have pointed out to him the fact that thousands had been consoled in the hour of death by passages from the Koran , that they ...
... knew more than all the great minds of his country , whether he was so much wiser than his fathers ? We would have pointed out to him the fact that thousands had been consoled in the hour of death by passages from the Koran , that they ...
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... knew . To sacrifice your manhood upon the grave of your father is an honor to neither . Why should a son who has examined a subject , throw away his reason and adopt the views of his mother ? Is not such a course dishonorable to both ...
... knew . To sacrifice your manhood upon the grave of your father is an honor to neither . Why should a son who has examined a subject , throw away his reason and adopt the views of his mother ? Is not such a course dishonorable to both ...
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... knew more than we had supposed . It cer- tainly is no proof that a man is inspired simply because he is right . No one pretends that Shakespeare was inspired , and yet all the writers of the books of the Old Testa- ment put together ...
... knew more than we had supposed . It cer- tainly is no proof that a man is inspired simply because he is right . No one pretends that Shakespeare was inspired , and yet all the writers of the books of the Old Testa- ment put together ...
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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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