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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... least , tell the truth about their friends . Should it turn out that I am the worst 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 ...
... least , tell the truth about their friends . Should it turn out that I am the worst 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 ...
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... least , as well as he treats us ? Christians tell me that they love their enemies , and yet all I ask is — not that they love their enemies , not that they love their friends even , but that they treat those who differ from them , with ...
... least , as well as he treats us ? Christians tell me that they love their enemies , and yet all I ask is — not that they love their enemies , not that they love their friends even , but that they treat those who differ from them , with ...
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... least delay ; that we are so infamous that we like to enjoy ourselves ; that we love our wives and children better than our God ; that we are generous only because we are vile ; that we are honest from the meanest motives , and that ...
... least delay ; that we are so infamous that we like to enjoy ourselves ; that we love our wives and children better than our God ; that we are generous only because we are vile ; that we are honest from the meanest motives , and that ...
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... least , permit him to tell the truth . They have , in Massachusetts , at a place called Andover , a kind of minister factory , where each professor takes an oath once in five years — that time being considered the life of an oath - that ...
... least , permit him to tell the truth . They have , in Massachusetts , at a place called Andover , a kind of minister factory , where each professor takes an oath once in five years — that time being considered the life of an oath - that ...
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... least related . They are deadly foes . What has religion to do with facts ? Nothing . Can there be Methodist mathematics , Catholic astronomy , Presbyterian geol- ogy , Baptist biology , or Episcopal botany ? Why , then , should a ...
... least related . They are deadly foes . What has religion to do with facts ? Nothing . Can there be Methodist mathematics , Catholic astronomy , Presbyterian geol- ogy , Baptist biology , or Episcopal botany ? Why , then , should a ...
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