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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... lived in rude , barbaric times . ) But we are told that it was written by inspired men ; that it contains the will of God ; that it is perfect , pure , and true in all its parts ; the source and standard of all moral and religious truth ...
... lived in rude , barbaric times . ) But we are told that it was written by inspired men ; that it contains the will of God ; that it is perfect , pure , and true in all its parts ; the source and standard of all moral and religious truth ...
Síða 37
... from whom he begged , and by whose labor he lived . We should have believed in a god with three heads instead of three gods with one head , as we do now . 1 Now and then some one says that the religion of SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 37.
... from whom he begged , and by whose labor he lived . We should have believed in a god with three heads instead of three gods with one head , as we do now . 1 Now and then some one says that the religion of SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 37.
Síða 51
... lived in the family of Charles Darwin , we certainly would account for his having these theories in a natural way , So , if Darwin him- self should pretend that he was inspired , and had obtained his peculiar theories from God , we ...
... lived in the family of Charles Darwin , we certainly would account for his having these theories in a natural way , So , if Darwin him- self should pretend that he was inspired , and had obtained his peculiar theories from God , we ...
Síða 63
... lived , and where water was kept . It was for this reason that they used to pray for rain . They supposed that some angel could with a lever raise a gate and let out the quantity of moisture desired . It was with the water from this ...
... lived , and where water was kept . It was for this reason that they used to pray for rain . They supposed that some angel could with a lever raise a gate and let out the quantity of moisture desired . It was with the water from this ...
Síða 64
... lived , surrounded by his sons . In no other way could he account for rain . Where did the water come from ? He knew nothing about the laws of evapo- ration . He did not know that the sun wooed with amorous kisses the waves of the sea ...
... lived , surrounded by his sons . In no other way could he account for rain . Where did the water come from ? He knew nothing about the laws of evapo- ration . He did not know that the sun wooed with amorous kisses the waves of the sea ...
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