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 14
... seems beyond the comprehension of man ; and yet in all countries where Christians have existed , they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power . Why should a believer in God hate an atheist ? Surely the atheist has ...
... seems beyond the comprehension of man ; and yet in all countries where Christians have existed , they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power . Why should a believer in God hate an atheist ? Surely the atheist has ...
Síða 15
... seems to be the sum of all the creeds . That which has happened in most countries has happened in ours . When a religion is founded , the educated , the powerful - that is to say , the priests and nobles , tell the ignorant and ...
... seems to be the sum of all the creeds . That which has happened in most countries has happened in ours . When a religion is founded , the educated , the powerful - that is to say , the priests and nobles , tell the ignorant and ...
Síða 40
... any personal intercourse with , and that all other prophets and scers were inspired only by im- pudence and mendacity . True , it seems somewhat strange that God should have chosen a barbarous and unknown 40 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
... any personal intercourse with , and that all other prophets and scers were inspired only by im- pudence and mendacity . True , it seems somewhat strange that God should have chosen a barbarous and unknown 40 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
Síða 42
... seems to me that evidence, even in spite of ourselves, will have its weight, and that whatever our wish may be, we are compelled to stand with fairness by the scales, and give the exact result. It will not do to say that we reject the ...
... seems to me that evidence, even in spite of ourselves, will have its weight, and that whatever our wish may be, we are compelled to stand with fairness by the scales, and give the exact result. It will not do to say that we reject the ...
Síða 46
... seems to be well settled that Moses had nothing to do with these books , and that they were not written until he had been dust and ashes for hundreds of years . But , as all the churches still insist that he was the author , that he ...
... seems to be well settled that Moses had nothing to do with these books , and that they were not written until he had been dust and ashes for hundreds of years . But , as all the churches still insist that he was the author , that he ...
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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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