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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... look with his own eyes , to reason for himself without fear , to investigate in every possible direction , and to bring us the fruit of all his work . At present , a good many men engaged in scien- 28 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
... look with his own eyes , to reason for himself without fear , to investigate in every possible direction , and to bring us the fruit of all his work . At present , a good many men engaged in scien- 28 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
Síða 67
... the branches were laden with fruit . And all this happened before a ray had left the quiver of the sun , before a glittering beam had thrilled the bosom of a flower , and before the Dawn with trembling hands had VIII WEDNESDAY,
... the branches were laden with fruit . And all this happened before a ray had left the quiver of the sun , before a glittering beam had thrilled the bosom of a flower , and before the Dawn with trembling hands had VIII WEDNESDAY,
Síða 68
... fruit ? Moses says that God said on the third day , " Let the earth bring forth grass , the herb yielding seed , and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind , whose seed is in itself upon the earth ; and it was so . And the earth ...
... fruit ? Moses says that God said on the third day , " Let the earth bring forth grass , the herb yielding seed , and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind , whose seed is in itself upon the earth ; and it was so . And the earth ...
Síða 69
... fruit , but not a mouth in all the world . If Moses is right , this state of things lasted only two days ; but if the modern theologians are correct , it continued for millions of ages . t " It is now well known that the organic history ...
... fruit , but not a mouth in all the world . If Moses is right , this state of things lasted only two days ; but if the modern theologians are correct , it continued for millions of ages . t " It is now well known that the organic history ...
Síða 71
... that the earth was covered with leaves , and buds , and flowers , and fruits before the sun with glittering spear had driven back the hosts of Night . امر A ΙΧ . THURSDAY . FTER the world was covered SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 71 I.
... that the earth was covered with leaves , and buds , and flowers , and fruits before the sun with glittering spear had driven back the hosts of Night . امر A ΙΧ . THURSDAY . FTER the world was covered SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 71 I.
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