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 v
... thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts . To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired . men ; that slavery , polygamy , wars of conquest and extermination were right , and ...
... thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts . To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired . men ; that slavery , polygamy , wars of conquest and extermination were right , and ...
Síða viii
... thousand years lurid with the fagots ' flames . Too great praise challenges attention , and often brings to light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see . Were we allowed to read the bible as we do all other ...
... thousand years lurid with the fagots ' flames . Too great praise challenges attention , and often brings to light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see . Were we allowed to read the bible as we do all other ...
Síða ix
... , the winds and waves were music , and all the lakes , and streams , and springs , the mountains , woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms . They thrilled the veins of Spring with trem- PREFACE . IX.
... , the winds and waves were music , and all the lakes , and streams , and springs , the mountains , woods and perfumed dells were haunted by a thousand fairy forms . They thrilled the veins of Spring with trem- PREFACE . IX.
Síða 22
... Thousands of ministers are anxious to give their honest thoughts . The hands of wives and babes now stop their mouths . They must have bread , and so the husbands and fathers are forced to preach a doctrine that they hold in scorn . For ...
... Thousands of ministers are anxious to give their honest thoughts . The hands of wives and babes now stop their mouths . They must have bread , and so the husbands and fathers are forced to preach a doctrine that they hold in scorn . For ...
Síða 37
... thousands had been consoled in the hour of death by passages from the Koran , that they had died with glazed eyes bright- ened by visions of the heavenly harem , and gladly left this world of grief and tears . We would have regarded ...
... thousands had been consoled in the hour of death by passages from the Koran , that they had died with glazed eyes bright- ened by visions of the heavenly harem , and gladly left this world of grief and tears . We would have regarded ...
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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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