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
... light . The church , impotent and malicious , regrets , not the abuse , but the loss of her power , and seeks to hold by false- hood what she gained by cruelty and force , by fire and fear . Christianity cannot live in peace with any ...
... light . The church , impotent and malicious , regrets , not the abuse , but the loss of her power , and seeks to hold by false- hood what she gained by cruelty and force , by fire and fear . Christianity cannot live in peace with any ...
Síða viii
... light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see . Were we allowed to read the bible as we do all other books , we would admire its beauties , treasure its worthy thoughts , and account for all its absurd ...
... light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see . Were we allowed to read the bible as we do all other books , we would admire its beauties , treasure its worthy thoughts , and account for all its absurd ...
Síða 23
... discoveries of our time . They will finally insist upon knowing how to escape the evils of this world instead of the next . They will ask light upon the enigmas of this life . They will wish to know SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 23.
... discoveries of our time . They will finally insist upon knowing how to escape the evils of this world instead of the next . They will ask light upon the enigmas of this life . They will wish to know SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 23.
Síða 24
... light ; that we must go back , that faith is the only sure guide , and that reason is a delusive glare , lighting only the road to eternal pain . Until the clergy are free they cannot be intel- lectually honest . We can never tell what ...
... light ; that we must go back , that faith is the only sure guide , and that reason is a delusive glare , lighting only the road to eternal pain . Until the clergy are free they cannot be intel- lectually honest . We can never tell what ...
Síða 28
... light , to follow Nature , no matter where she leads ; to be infinitely true to himself and us ; to feel that he is without a chain , except the obligation to be honest ; that he is bound by no books , by no creed , neither by the ...
... light , to follow Nature , no matter where she leads ; to be infinitely true to himself and us ; to feel that he is without a chain , except the obligation to be honest ; that he is bound by no books , by no creed , neither by the ...
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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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