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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... light streaming through windows stained and touched by blood and flame - the swinging censer with its perfumed incense rising to the mighty roof , dim with height and rich with legend carved in stone , while on the walls was hung ...
... light streaming through windows stained and touched by blood and flame - the swinging censer with its perfumed incense rising to the mighty roof , dim with height and rich with legend carved in stone , while on the walls was hung ...
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Robert Green Ingersoll. ray of light from human eyes , give up their dead ? How could these characters span the vast chasm dividing the present from the past , and make it possible for the living still to hear the voices of the dead ? V ...
Robert Green Ingersoll. ray of light from human eyes , give up their dead ? How could these characters span the vast chasm dividing the present from the past , and make it possible for the living still to hear the voices of the dead ? V ...
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... light before the sun existed . Nothing can be clearer than that Moses received from the Egyptians the principal parts of his narra- tive , making such changes and additions as were necessary to satisfy the peculiar superstitions of his ...
... light before the sun existed . Nothing can be clearer than that Moses received from the Egyptians the principal parts of his narra- tive , making such changes and additions as were necessary to satisfy the peculiar superstitions of his ...
Síða 53
... light . To account for any- thing by supernatural agencies is , in fact to say that we do not know . Theology is not what we know about God , but what we do not know about Nature . In order to increase our respect for the bible , it ...
... light . To account for any- thing by supernatural agencies is , in fact to say that we do not know . Theology is not what we know about God , but what we do not know about Nature . In order to increase our respect for the bible , it ...
Síða 54
... of hell , and bribed with promises of heaven . Let us examine a portion of this book , not in the darkness of our fear , but in the light of reason . And first , let us examine the account given of 54 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
... of hell , and bribed with promises of heaven . Let us examine a portion of this book , not in the darkness of our fear , but in the light of reason . And first , let us examine the account given of 54 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES .
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