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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... thoughts , and account for all its absurd , grotesque and cruel things , by saying that its authors lived in rude , barbaric times . But we are told that it was written by inspired men ; that it contains the will of God ; that it is ...
... thoughts , and account for all its absurd , grotesque and cruel things , by saying that its authors lived in rude , barbaric times . But we are told that it was written by inspired men ; that it contains the will of God ; that it is ...
Síða x
... thought . But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God , and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt , the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty ...
... thought . But if the world were taught that all these things are true and all inspired of God , and that eternal punishment will be the lot of him who dares deny or doubt , the sweetest myth of all the Fable World would lose its beauty ...
Síða 13
... thought is dangerous , that intellectual courage is a crime , that cowardice is a virtue , that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation , that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next , and that we must ...
... thought is dangerous , that intellectual courage is a crime , that cowardice is a virtue , that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation , that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next , and that we must ...
Síða 14
... thought and say . This earth will be a paradise when men can , upon all these questions differ , and yet grasp each other's hands as friends . It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with ...
... thought and say . This earth will be a paradise when men can , upon all these questions differ , and yet grasp each other's hands as friends . It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with ...
Síða 17
... thought , as a mortal pestilence . Every minister is employed like an attorney either for plaintiff or defendant ... thoughts , but simply to repeat the ideas of others . They are not expected to give even the doubts that may suggest ...
... thought , as a mortal pestilence . Every minister is employed like an attorney either for plaintiff or defendant ... thoughts , but simply to repeat the ideas of others . They are not expected to give even the doubts that may suggest ...
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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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