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 73
... million miles ? Did he know anything about Saturn , his rings and ... three days , nor three periods , nor three " good whiles " before its source , the sun ? Moses supposed the sun to be about three or four SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 73.
... million miles ? Did he know anything about Saturn , his rings and ... three days , nor three periods , nor three " good whiles " before its source , the sun ? Moses supposed the sun to be about three or four SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 73.
Síða 82
Robert Green Ingersoll. and that Capella wheels and shines one hundred and thirty - three billion miles beyond ? Did ... million years . It may be replied that it was not the intention of God to teach geology and astronomy . Then ...
Robert Green Ingersoll. and that Capella wheels and shines one hundred and thirty - three billion miles beyond ? Did ... million years . It may be replied that it was not the intention of God to teach geology and astronomy . Then ...
Síða 98
... thousand eight hundred and eighty - three years ago . Sixteen hundred and fifty - six years after the making of the first man , the inhabitants of the world , with the exception of eight people , were destroyed by a flood . This ...
... thousand eight hundred and eighty - three years ago . Sixteen hundred and fifty - six years after the making of the first man , the inhabitants of the world , with the exception of eight people , were destroyed by a flood . This ...
Síða 185
... three million . How do we know that there were three million at the end of two hundred and fifteen years ? We know it because we are informed by Moses that " there were six hundred ... three million SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 185.
... three million . How do we know that there were three million at the end of two hundred and fifteen years ? We know it because we are informed by Moses that " there were six hundred ... three million SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 185.
Síða 186
... three millions of people . In one hundred years we doubled four times : that is to say , six , twelve , twenty - four , forty - eight million , our present popu- lation . We must not forget that during all these years there has been ...
... three millions of people . In one hundred years we doubled four times : that is to say , six , twelve , twenty - four , forty - eight million , our present popu- lation . We must not forget that during all these years there has been ...
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