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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... earth ; and it was so . And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind , and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind ; and God saw that it was good , and the evening and the morning were ...
... earth ; and it was so . And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind , and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind ; and God saw that it was good , and the evening and the morning were ...
Síða 87
... earth bring forth the living creature after his kind , cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind ; and it was so . And God made the beast of the earth after his kind , and cattle after their kind , and every thing ...
... earth bring forth the living creature after his kind , cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind ; and it was so . And God made the beast of the earth after his kind , and cattle after their kind , and every thing ...
Síða 109
... earth and the 4108 ) 66 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth , and every herb of the field before it grew ; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth , and there was not a man to till the ground ...
... earth and the 4108 ) 66 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth , and every herb of the field before it grew ; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth , and there was not a man to till the ground ...
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