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 67
... land might appear . ' Certainly the writer of this did not have any conception of the real form of the earth . He could not have known anything of the attraction of gravi- tation . He must have regarded the earth as flat and supposed ...
... land might appear . ' Certainly the writer of this did not have any conception of the real form of the earth . He could not have known anything of the attraction of gravi- tation . He must have regarded the earth as flat and supposed ...
Síða 82
... " and divided the waters . On the third day he gathered the waters into seas , let the dry land appear and caused the earth to bring forth grass , herbs and fruit trees , and on the fourth day he made 82 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
... " and divided the waters . On the third day he gathered the waters into seas , let the dry land appear and caused the earth to bring forth grass , herbs and fruit trees , and on the fourth day he made 82 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
Síða 84
... land was covered with grass , and herbs , and trees bearing fruit , the ocean was absolutely devoid of life , and so remained for millions of years ? If Moses meant twenty - four hours by the word day , then it would make but little ...
... land was covered with grass , and herbs , and trees bearing fruit , the ocean was absolutely devoid of life , and so remained for millions of years ? If Moses meant twenty - four hours by the word day , then it would make but little ...
Síða 109
... land of Havilah , where there is gold . " And the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone . " And the name of the second river is Gihon SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 109.
... land of Havilah , where there is gold . " And the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone . " And the name of the second river is Gihon SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 109.
Síða 110
... land of Ethiopia . ' And the name of the third river is Hiddekel ; that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria . And the fourth river is Euphrates . 66 " And the Lord God took the man , and put him into the garden of Eden to dress ...
... land of Ethiopia . ' And the name of the third river is Hiddekel ; that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria . And the fourth river is Euphrates . 66 " And the Lord God took the man , and put him into the garden of Eden to dress ...
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