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 188
... killed an Egyptian that was smiting a slave , hid the body in the sand , and fled from Egypt to the land of Midian , became acquainted with a priest who had seven daughters , took the side of the daughters against the ill - mannered ...
... killed an Egyptian that was smiting a slave , hid the body in the sand , and fled from Egypt to the land of Midian , became acquainted with a priest who had seven daughters , took the side of the daughters against the ill - mannered ...
Síða 207
... kill his cattle with murrain ? Does such a threat sound God - like ? Do you believe that , failing to effect anything by killing the cattle , this same God then threatened to afflict all the people with boils , including the magi- cians ...
... kill his cattle with murrain ? Does such a threat sound God - like ? Do you believe that , failing to effect anything by killing the cattle , this same God then threatened to afflict all the people with boils , including the magi- cians ...
Síða 220
... kill the Canaanites slowly , giving as a reason that the beasts of the field might increase upon his chosen people . When we take into consideration the fact that the Holy Land contained only about eleven or twelve thousand square miles ...
... kill the Canaanites slowly , giving as a reason that the beasts of the field might increase upon his chosen people . When we take into consideration the fact that the Holy Land contained only about eleven or twelve thousand square miles ...
Síða 226
... kill a bullock for a sin offering , and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands upon the head of the bullock . Then you must take the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with your finger , and pour some blood at the ...
... kill a bullock for a sin offering , and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands upon the head of the bullock . Then you must take the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with your finger , and pour some blood at the ...
Síða 227
... kill it and take of its blood , and put it on the top of Aaron's right ear , and on the thumb of his right hand , and on the great toe of his right foot . And you must also put a little of the blood upon the top of the right ears of ...
... kill it and take of its blood , and put it on the top of Aaron's right ear , and on the thumb of his right hand , and on the great toe of his right foot . And you must also put a little of the blood upon the top of the right ears of ...
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