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 65
... lived above the earth , in the firmament . The same idea was in the mind of the Psalmist when he said that God " bowed the heavens and came down . " Of course , God could easily remove any person bodily to heaven , as it was but a ...
... lived above the earth , in the firmament . The same idea was in the mind of the Psalmist when he said that God " bowed the heavens and came down . " Of course , God could easily remove any person bodily to heaven , as it was but a ...
Síða 77
... lived about fifteen hundred years before Christ , and although he was " inspired , " and obtained his infor- mation directly from God , he did not know as much about our solar system as the Chinese did a thousand years before he was ...
... lived about fifteen hundred years before Christ , and although he was " inspired , " and obtained his infor- mation directly from God , he did not know as much about our solar system as the Chinese did a thousand years before he was ...
Síða 97
... lived in the rude morning of a barbaric day ? Will anybody now contend that man was a direct and independent creation , and sustains and bears no relation to the animals below him ? Belief upon this subject must be governed at last by ...
... lived in the rude morning of a barbaric day ? Will anybody now contend that man was a direct and independent creation , and sustains and bears no relation to the animals below him ? Belief upon this subject must be governed at last by ...
Síða 100
... lived have been discovered the remains of these animals that had been conquered , killed and devoured as food , hundreds of thousands of years ago . If these facts are true , Moses was mistaken . For my part , I have infinitely more ...
... lived have been discovered the remains of these animals that had been conquered , killed and devoured as food , hundreds of thousands of years ago . If these facts are true , Moses was mistaken . For my part , I have infinitely more ...
Síða 112
... lived one Mosaic day before there were any trees , and another Mosaic day before the beasts and fowls were created . Will some kind clergymen tell us upon what kind of food Adam subsisted during these immense periods ? In the second ...
... lived one Mosaic day before there were any trees , and another Mosaic day before the beasts and fowls were created . Will some kind clergymen tell us upon what kind of food Adam subsisted during these immense periods ? In the second ...
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