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 56
... means anything , it means that God produced , caused to exist , called into being , the heaven and the earth . It will not do to say that he formed the heaven and the earth of previously existing matter . Moses conveys , and intended to ...
... means anything , it means that God produced , caused to exist , called into being , the heaven and the earth . It will not do to say that he formed the heaven and the earth of previously existing matter . Moses conveys , and intended to ...
Síða 61
... mean by the word firma- ment ? Theologians now tell us that he meant an " expanse . " This will not do . How could an expanse divide the waters from the waters , so that the waters above the expanse would not fall into and mingle with ...
... mean by the word firma- ment ? Theologians now tell us that he meant an " expanse . " This will not do . How could an expanse divide the waters from the waters , so that the waters above the expanse would not fall into and mingle with ...
Síða 67
... means of an " expanse , " he proceeded " to gather the waters on the earth together in seas , so that the dry land might appear . ' Certainly the writer of this did not have any conception of the real form of the earth . He could not ...
... means of an " expanse , " he proceeded " to gather the waters on the earth together in seas , so that the dry land might appear . ' Certainly the writer of this did not have any conception of the real form of the earth . He could not ...
Síða 68
... mean by the word day a period of twenty - four hours , but an immense and almost measureless space of time , and as God did not , according to this view make any animals until the fifth day , that is , not for millions of years after he ...
... mean by the word day a period of twenty - four hours , but an immense and almost measureless space of time , and as God did not , according to this view make any animals until the fifth day , that is , not for millions of years after he ...
Síða 85
... means certain that he is the author of the bible . Why then should we not place greater confidence in Nature than in a book ? And even if this God made not only the world but the book besides , it does not follow that the book is the ...
... means certain that he is the author of the bible . Why then should we not place greater confidence in Nature than in a book ? And even if this God made not only the world but the book besides , it does not follow that the book is the ...
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