Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146552133X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4737
Book Description
The works of Robert G. Ingersoll
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146552133X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4737
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146552133X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4737
Book Description
Some Mistakes of Moses
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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
Lectures.- v.5-7. Discussions.- v.8. Interviews.- v.9. Political.- v.10. Legal.- v.11.-12. Miscellany
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Lectures
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Some Reasons
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Lectures.- v.5-7. Discussions.- v.8. Interviews.- v.9. Political.- v.10. Legal.- v.11. Miscellany.- v.12. Tributes and miscellany
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher:
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Category : Agnosticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Agnosticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author: T. Joyner Drolsum
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434300374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Tim. 3: 16). According to this verse, the bible is a divinely inspired moral guide. However, the critical analysis of Scripture that comprises the contents of this book clearly demonstrates that this claim is invalid for a number of reasons. For example, the multiple contradictions and absurdities contained in the bible confer an unreliability upon it that undermines its function as a guide for anything, let alone moral decision making. Furthermore, many of the ideas it promotes are actually spiritually harmful. And unless the misogyny, violence, intolerance, injustice and cruelty can be removed, then it is difficult to view the Scriptures as even remotely resembling an unassailable divine guide to ethical conduct. Moreover, the many errors that it contains, including those about the natural world, obviates the claim that the bible is divinely inspired. In the course of using the verses themselves in discussing such topics as biblical errancy, bible-based morality, the nature of the biblical god, the nature of a religion based on the bible, and the bible's stance on science, nature and truth, it will be shown that any belief that it is either divinely inspired or a trustworthy guide to right living is both misguided and delusional. In addition, the insights of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Feuerbach, Spinoza, Shakespeare, Euripides, Dostoyevsky, Camus, Sartre, Maugham, Augustine, Aquinas, Twain, Chaucer, Einstein, Freud, Ingersoll, Mencken, and others will be used to illuminate the true character of the bible, that it is a far more profane thansacred book.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434300374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Tim. 3: 16). According to this verse, the bible is a divinely inspired moral guide. However, the critical analysis of Scripture that comprises the contents of this book clearly demonstrates that this claim is invalid for a number of reasons. For example, the multiple contradictions and absurdities contained in the bible confer an unreliability upon it that undermines its function as a guide for anything, let alone moral decision making. Furthermore, many of the ideas it promotes are actually spiritually harmful. And unless the misogyny, violence, intolerance, injustice and cruelty can be removed, then it is difficult to view the Scriptures as even remotely resembling an unassailable divine guide to ethical conduct. Moreover, the many errors that it contains, including those about the natural world, obviates the claim that the bible is divinely inspired. In the course of using the verses themselves in discussing such topics as biblical errancy, bible-based morality, the nature of the biblical god, the nature of a religion based on the bible, and the bible's stance on science, nature and truth, it will be shown that any belief that it is either divinely inspired or a trustworthy guide to right living is both misguided and delusional. In addition, the insights of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Feuerbach, Spinoza, Shakespeare, Euripides, Dostoyevsky, Camus, Sartre, Maugham, Augustine, Aquinas, Twain, Chaucer, Einstein, Freud, Ingersoll, Mencken, and others will be used to illuminate the true character of the bible, that it is a far more profane thansacred book.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher:
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Publisher:
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Author: Gordon Stein
Publisher: Kent, Ohio?] : Kent State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Publisher: Kent, Ohio?] : Kent State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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