Some Mistakes of MosesC.P. Farrell, 1879 - 278 síđur 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 |
From inside the book
Niđurstöđur 1 - 5 af 46
Síđa vi
... hundred times , and many of the clergy are still engaged in the great work . To keep these rev- erend gentlemen from wasting their talents on the mistakes of reporters and printers , I concluded to publish the principal points in all my ...
... hundred times , and many of the clergy are still engaged in the great work . To keep these rev- erend gentlemen from wasting their talents on the mistakes of reporters and printers , I concluded to publish the principal points in all my ...
Síđa 16
... hundred years . Their congregations are not grand enough , nor sufficiently civilized , to be willing that the poor preachers shall think for themselves . They are not employed for that purpose . Investigation is regarded as a dangerous ...
... hundred years . Their congregations are not grand enough , nor sufficiently civilized , to be willing that the poor preachers shall think for themselves . They are not employed for that purpose . Investigation is regarded as a dangerous ...
Síđa 36
... hundred days for a very smart camel to travel the distance . If some man had denied this story we should probably have denounced him as a dangerous person , one who was endeavoring to undermine the foundations of society , and to ...
... hundred days for a very smart camel to travel the distance . If some man had denied this story we should probably have denounced him as a dangerous person , one who was endeavoring to undermine the foundations of society , and to ...
Síđa 46
... hundreds of years . But , as all the churches still insist that he was the author , that he wrote even an account of his own death and burial , let us speak of him as though these books were in fact written by him . As the christians ...
... hundreds of years . But , as all the churches still insist that he was the author , that he wrote even an account of his own death and burial , let us speak of him as though these books were in fact written by him . As the christians ...
Síđa 53
... hundreds of years to destroy the confidence of man in himself to induce him to distrust his own powers of thought , to believe that he was wholly unable to decide any question for himself , and that all human virtue consists in faith ...
... hundreds of years to destroy the confidence of man in himself to induce him to distrust his own powers of thought , to believe that he was wholly unable to decide any question for himself , and that all human virtue consists in faith ...
Ađrar útgáfur - View all
Common terms and phrases
absurd Adam and Eve admit animals babes barbaric beasts believe bible birds blood born Canaanites cattle children of Israel christian church cloth commanded created creation creature creeping things crime death destroy dust earth Egyptians eternal existed fact fathers firmament flesh flood fowls frogs fruit garden garden of Eden give heaven Hebrews hell helpmeet herb honest hornets human hundred ideas infinite INGERSOLL inspired Jehovah Jews kill land of Egypt language laws liberty light lived Lord magicians of Egypt mankind matter miles minister miracle Moses and Aaron never Noah Pentateuch Pharaoh polygamy postage priests reason religion sacred seems serpent shalt simply slavery soul story supposed tell ten commandments THOMAS PAINE thou thought thousand three million totally depraved tree true truth unto vols Voltaire wife woman words worship written