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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... promised land . How large a country was that ? About twelve thousand square miles . About one - fifth the size of the State of Illinois . It was a frightful country , covered with rocks and deso- lation . How many people were in the ...
... promised land . How large a country was that ? About twelve thousand square miles . About one - fifth the size of the State of Illinois . It was a frightful country , covered with rocks and deso- lation . How many people were in the ...
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... promised land imme- diately . They were not fit to inhabit the land of Canaan ; so he made up his mind to allow them to wander upon the desert until all except two , who had left Egypt , should perish . Of all the slaves released from ...
... promised land imme- diately . They were not fit to inhabit the land of Canaan ; so he made up his mind to allow them to wander upon the desert until all except two , who had left Egypt , should perish . Of all the slaves released from ...
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... promised land of joy and plenty , this God , forgetting every promise , said to the wretches in his power : - " Your ... promises of God . Into this rottenness of wandering despair fell all the dreams of liberty and home . Millions of ...
... promised land of joy and plenty , this God , forgetting every promise , said to the wretches in his power : - " Your ... promises of God . Into this rottenness of wandering despair fell all the dreams of liberty and home . Millions of ...
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