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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... path trodden by the ignorance of the past . The forests and fields on either side are nothing to them . They must not even look at the purple hills , nor The pause to hear the babble of the brooks . 2 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 17.
... path trodden by the ignorance of the past . The forests and fields on either side are nothing to them . They must not even look at the purple hills , nor The pause to hear the babble of the brooks . 2 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 17.
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... fields , who sit and laugh beside the gurgling springs or climb the hills and wander as they will . They are expected to point out the dangers of freedom , the safety of implicit obedience , and to show the wickedness of philosophy ...
... fields , who sit and laugh beside the gurgling springs or climb the hills and wander as they will . They are expected to point out the dangers of freedom , the safety of implicit obedience , and to show the wickedness of philosophy ...
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... field and Birmingham brand their wares , and all who see the brand know exactly what the minister be- lieves , the books he has read , the arguments he relies on , and just what he intellectually is . They know just what he can be ...
... field and Birmingham brand their wares , and all who see the brand know exactly what the minister be- lieves , the books he has read , the arguments he relies on , and just what he intellectually is . They know just what he can be ...
Síða 103
... can please an infinite being by staying in some dark and sombre room , instead of walking in the perfumed fields ! Why should God hate to see a man happy ? Why should it excite his wrath to see a family in SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 103.
... can please an infinite being by staying in some dark and sombre room , instead of walking in the perfumed fields ! Why should God hate to see a man happy ? Why should it excite his wrath to see a family in SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 103.
Síða 108
... the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created , in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens . " And every plant of the field before it was SUNDAY, ΙΟΙ XV THE NECESSITY FOR A GOOD MEMORY,
... the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created , in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens . " And every plant of the field before it was SUNDAY, ΙΟΙ XV THE NECESSITY FOR A GOOD MEMORY,
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