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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... millions have implicitly believed this book ,, and have just as implicitly believed that polygamy was sanctioned by God . Millions have regarded this book as the foundation of all human progress , and at the same time looked upon ...
... millions have implicitly believed this book ,, and have just as implicitly believed that polygamy was sanctioned by God . Millions have regarded this book as the foundation of all human progress , and at the same time looked upon ...
Síða 68
... millions of years after he made the grass and trees , for what purpose did he cause the trees to bear fruit ? Moses says that God said on the third day , " Let the earth bring forth grass , the herb yielding seed , and the fruit tree ...
... millions of years after he made the grass and trees , for what purpose did he cause the trees to bear fruit ? Moses says that God said on the third day , " Let the earth bring forth grass , the herb yielding seed , and the fruit tree ...
Síða 69
... millions of ages . " It is now well known that the organic history of the earth can be properly divided into five epochs— the Primordial , Primary , Secondary , Tertiary , and Quaternary . Each of these epochs is characterized by animal ...
... millions of ages . " It is now well known that the organic history of the earth can be properly divided into five epochs— the Primordial , Primary , Secondary , Tertiary , and Quaternary . Each of these epochs is characterized by animal ...
Síða 73
... million miles ? Did he know anything about Saturn , his rings and his eight moons ? Did he have the faintest idea that all these planets were once a part of the sun ; that the vast luminary was once thousands of millions of miles in ...
... million miles ? Did he know anything about Saturn , his rings and his eight moons ? Did he have the faintest idea that all these planets were once a part of the sun ; that the vast luminary was once thousands of millions of miles in ...
Síða 82
... millions of years are required for their light to reach this globe ? If this is true , and if as the bible tells us , the stars were made after the earth , then this world has been wheeling in its orbit for at least five million years ...
... millions of years are required for their light to reach this globe ? If this is true , and if as the bible tells us , the stars were made after the earth , then this world has been wheeling in its orbit for at least five million years ...
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