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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... language and this they begin to do ; and nothing will be restrained from them which they imagined to do . Go to , let us go down and confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech . " The man who wrote that ...
... language and this they begin to do ; and nothing will be restrained from them which they imagined to do . Go to , let us go down and confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech . " The man who wrote that ...
Síða 90
... language is impossible , or it is not essential that all should understand it correctly . It may be urged that millions have not the capacity to understand a revelation , although expressed in the plainest words . To this it seems a ...
... language is impossible , or it is not essential that all should understand it correctly . It may be urged that millions have not the capacity to understand a revelation , although expressed in the plainest words . To this it seems a ...
Síða 129
... language related in the text . It therefore appears to me that a creature of the ape or orang- outang kind is here intended , and that satan made use of this creature as the most proper instrument for the accomplishment of his murderous ...
... language related in the text . It therefore appears to me that a creature of the ape or orang- outang kind is here intended , and that satan made use of this creature as the most proper instrument for the accomplishment of his murderous ...
Síða 139
... language . There was not a bible in the world . The " scheme of salvation " was kept a profound secret . The five points of Calvinism had not been taught . Sunday schools had not been opened . In short , nothing had been done for the ...
... language . There was not a bible in the world . The " scheme of salvation " was kept a profound secret . The five points of Calvinism had not been taught . Sunday schools had not been opened . In short , nothing had been done for the ...
Síða 144
... language that can more clearly convey the idea of a universal flood than that found in the inspired account . unt . If the flood was only partial , why did God say he would " destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under ...
... language that can more clearly convey the idea of a universal flood than that found in the inspired account . unt . If the flood was only partial , why did God say he would " destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under ...
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