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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Síða 24
... Lord Jesus Christ , as though that were the only remedy for all human ills . They will still teach that retrogression is the only path that leads to light ; that we must go back , that faith is the only sure guide , and that reason is a ...
... Lord Jesus Christ , as though that were the only remedy for all human ills . They will still teach that retrogression is the only path that leads to light ; that we must go back , that faith is the only sure guide , and that reason is a ...
Síða 64
... Lord stood above it and said , I am the Lord God . " : So , when the people were building the tower 64 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
... Lord stood above it and said , I am the Lord God . " : So , when the people were building the tower 64 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
Síða 65
... Lord came down to see the city , and the tower which the children of men builded . And the Lord said , Behold the people is one , and they have all one language and this they begin to do ; and nothing will be restrained from them ...
... Lord came down to see the city , and the tower which the children of men builded . And the Lord said , Behold the people is one , and they have all one language and this they begin to do ; and nothing will be restrained from them ...
Síða 66
... Lord and the assumption of his Mother infinitely absurd , crumbled to chaos the gates and palaces of the New Jerusalem , and in their places gave to man a wilderness of worlds . 1 + W VIII . WEDNESDAY . E are next informed 66 SOME ...
... Lord and the assumption of his Mother infinitely absurd , crumbled to chaos the gates and palaces of the New Jerusalem , and in their places gave to man a wilderness of worlds . 1 + W VIII . WEDNESDAY . E are next informed 66 SOME ...
Síða 74
... the hailstones , spoken of in the same chapter , that the Lord cast down from heaven , and allowed the sun and moon to rise and set in the usual way . It is impossible to conceive of a more absurd story 74 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
... the hailstones , spoken of in the same chapter , that the Lord cast down from heaven , and allowed the sun and moon to rise and set in the usual way . It is impossible to conceive of a more absurd story 74 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
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