Some Mistakes of MosesC.P. Farrell, 1879 - 278 síður There was a time when a falsehood, fulminated from the pulpit, smote like a sword; but, the supply having greatly exceeded the demand, clerical misrepresentation has at last become almost an innocent amusement. Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an exceedingly mild and gentle way, the ideas entertained by me, I congratulate myself that calumny is now the pulpit's last resort. The old instruments of torture are kept only to gratify curiosity; the chains are rusting away, and the demolition of time has allowed even the dungeons of the Inquisition to be visited by light. The church, impotent and malicious, regrets, not the abuse, but the loss of her power, and seeks to hold by falsehood what she gained by cruelty and force, by fire and fear. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other form of faith. If that religion be true, there is but one savior, one inspired book, and but one little narrow grass-grown path that leads to heaven. Such a religion is necessarily uncompromising, unreasoning, aggressive and insolent. Christianity has held all other creeds and forms in infinite contempt, divided the world into enemies and friends, and verified the awful declaration of its founder -- a declaration that wet with blood the sword he came to bring, and made the horizon of a thousand years lurid with the fagots' flames.....Robert Green Ingersoll |
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... appear to the carnal mind , they must be preached and they must be believed . If they were reasonable , there would be no virtue in believing . Even the publicans and sin- ners believe reasonable things . To believe without evidence ...
... appear to the carnal mind , they must be preached and they must be believed . If they were reasonable , there would be no virtue in believing . Even the publicans and sin- ners believe reasonable things . To believe without evidence ...
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... on the condition that we believe it whether it : appears reasonable or not . We may disagree with others as much as we please upon the meaning of all passages in the bible , but we must not { 4I SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
... on the condition that we believe it whether it : appears reasonable or not . We may disagree with others as much as we please upon the meaning of all passages in the bible , but we must not { 4I SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
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... appears unreasonable , contradictory or absurd , let us have the honesty and courage to admit it . Certainly no good can result either from deceiving ourselves or others . Many millions have implicitly believed this book ,, and have ...
... appears unreasonable , contradictory or absurd , let us have the honesty and courage to admit it . Certainly no good can result either from deceiving ourselves or others . Many millions have implicitly believed this book ,, and have ...
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... appears utterly impossible , repugnant to every fact of experience , and contrary to everything that we really know , must be rejected by every honest man . We can conceive of eternity , because we cannot conceive of a cessation , of ...
... appears utterly impossible , repugnant to every fact of experience , and contrary to everything that we really know , must be rejected by every honest man . We can conceive of eternity , because we cannot conceive of a cessation , of ...
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... appears reasonable to me that force has existed from eternity . Force cannot , as it appears to me , exist apart from matter . Force , in its nature , is forever active , and without matter it could not act ; and so I think matter must ...
... appears reasonable to me that force has existed from eternity . Force cannot , as it appears to me , exist apart from matter . Force , in its nature , is forever active , and without matter it could not act ; and so I think matter must ...
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