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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... man in the whole world , the story of the flood will remain just as improbable as before , and the contradictions of the Pentateuch will still demand an explanation . There was a time when a falsehood , fulminated from VI PREFACE .
... man in the whole world , the story of the flood will remain just as improbable as before , and the contradictions of the Pentateuch will still demand an explanation . There was a time when a falsehood , fulminated from VI PREFACE .
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... flood of gold . Why should men in the name of religion try to harmonize the contradictions that exist between Nature and a book ? Why should philosophers be denounced for placing more reliance upon what they know than upon what they ...
... flood of gold . Why should men in the name of religion try to harmonize the contradictions that exist between Nature and a book ? Why should philosophers be denounced for placing more reliance upon what they know than upon what they ...
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... flood . This flood occurred only about four thousand two hundred and twenty - seven years ago . If this ac- count is correct , at that time , only one kind of men existed . Noah and his family were certainly of the same blood . It ...
... flood . This flood occurred only about four thousand two hundred and twenty - seven years ago . If this ac- count is correct , at that time , only one kind of men existed . Noah and his family were certainly of the same blood . It ...
Síða 144
... flood was partial , that the waters covered only a small portion of the world , and that conse- quently only a few animals were in the ark . It is impossible to conceive of language that can more clearly convey the idea of a universal flood ...
... flood was partial , that the waters covered only a small portion of the world , and that conse- quently only a few animals were in the ark . It is impossible to conceive of language that can more clearly convey the idea of a universal flood ...
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... flood was simply a partial flood , why were birds taken into the ark ? It seems to me that most birds , attend- ing strictly to business , might avoid a partial flood . There are at least sixteen hundred and fifty - eight kinds of ...
... flood was simply a partial flood , why were birds taken into the ark ? It seems to me that most birds , attend- ing strictly to business , might avoid a partial flood . There are at least sixteen hundred and fifty - eight kinds of ...
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