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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... was eight hundred and sixty thousand miles in diameter ; that it was enveloped in an ocean of fire thousands of miles in depth , hotter even than the christian's hell , A } over which sweep tempests of flame moving at the THURSDAY,
... was eight hundred and sixty thousand miles in diameter ; that it was enveloped in an ocean of fire thousands of miles in depth , hotter even than the christian's hell , A } over which sweep tempests of flame moving at the THURSDAY,
Síða 104
... hell ? Why should that day be filled with gloom instead of joy ? A poor mechanic , working all the week in dust and noise , needs a day of rest and joy , a day to visit stream and wood - a day to live with wife and child ; a day in ...
... hell ? Why should that day be filled with gloom instead of joy ? A poor mechanic , working all the week in dust and noise , needs a day of rest and joy , a day to visit stream and wood - a day to live with wife and child ; a day in ...
Síða 118
... you the God's truth , that was just a little more than I could swallow . Away with him to hell ! Next ! Where are you from ? I am from the world too . Did you belong to any church ? Yes sir , 118 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
... you the God's truth , that was just a little more than I could swallow . Away with him to hell ! Next ! Where are you from ? I am from the world too . Did you belong to any church ? Yes sir , 118 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
Síða 125
... hell ; but they do not tell us where it is . Some commentators say that the Garden of Eden was in the third heaven - some in the fourth , others have located it in the moon , some in the air beyond the attraction of the earth , some on ...
... hell ; but they do not tell us where it is . Some commentators say that the Garden of Eden was in the third heaven - some in the fourth , others have located it in the moon , some in the air beyond the attraction of the earth , some on ...
Síða 136
... hell in which to burn the honest seeker after truth . ) When I speak of God , I mean that god who pre- vented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the fruit of the tree of life that he might live forever ; of that god who ...
... hell in which to burn the honest seeker after truth . ) When I speak of God , I mean that god who pre- vented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the fruit of the tree of life that he might live forever ; of that god who ...
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