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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... simply as a record of a barbarous people , in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery , many absurd and unjust laws , and thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts . To me it seemed almost a ...
... simply as a record of a barbarous people , in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery , many absurd and unjust laws , and thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts . To me it seemed almost a ...
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... simply to repeat the 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 ...
... simply to repeat the 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 ...
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... much truth he may discover , and that his salary will not be reduced , simply because he finds that the ancient Jews did not know the entire history of the world . Besides , it is not fair to make the Catholic SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 27.
... much truth he may discover , and that his salary will not be reduced , simply because he finds that the ancient Jews did not know the entire history of the world . Besides , it is not fair to make the Catholic SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 27.
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... simply because he happens to believe the wrong one . All these religions were produced by barbarians . Civilized nations have contented themselves with changing the religions of their barbaric ancestors , but they have made none ...
... simply because he happens to believe the wrong one . All these religions were produced by barbarians . Civilized nations have contented themselves with changing the religions of their barbaric ancestors , but they have made none ...
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... simply different ways by which the accomplishment of the same object is sought , and are all the offspring of the same error . Many systems of religion must have existed many ages before the art of writing was discovered , and must have ...
... simply different ways by which the accomplishment of the same object is sought , and are all the offspring of the same error . Many systems of religion must have existed many ages before the art of writing was discovered , and must have ...
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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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