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<p> FAITH IN A FATAL DECLINE</p>
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<p> Howbeit, their pulpits and their press are lugubriously vocal
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with <ent type='PERSON'>Jeremiads</ent> bewailing the ever-swelling tide of Unbelief in the
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with <ent type='NORP'>Jeremiads</ent> bewailing the ever-swelling tide of Unbelief in the
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land, -- throughout <ent type='ORG'>Christendom</ent>. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> statistics, notoriously
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padded after the <ent type='ORG'>Biblical</ent> model of the Censuses in the <ent type='ORG'>Wilderness</ent>,
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padded after the Biblical model of the Censuses in the <ent type='ORG'>Wilderness</ent>,
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can claim at most some forty-odd millions of adherents -- many of
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them by lip-service and non-paying (therefore negligible), and
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others many non-distinguished for piety or common honesty -- out of
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@ -106,12 +106,12 @@ Reverend Rector of <ent type='ORG'>Trinity</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in
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wealthiest dead-hand tax-free land monopolists in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>) -- thus
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bewails: "In <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> we are dealing with a country, the majority of
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whose inhabitants are pagans. ... Only forty percent of the
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population acknowledges affiliation with any <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>." (N. Y. <ent type='ORG'>Times</ent>,
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population acknowledges affiliation with any <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>." (N. Y. Times,
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March 15, 1930.) The ex-<ent type='ORG'>Sec</ent>retary of <ent type='ORG'>the Home Missions Council</ent> of
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one of the great <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>es bemoans: "There has been a tremendous
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revolution in the history of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. ... The country church is
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waning and dying. ... The revolution under our eyes is found in the
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mode of thinking of the whole country." (N.Y. <ent type='ORG'>Times</ent>, Jan. 8, 1930).
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mode of thinking of the whole country." (N.Y. Times, Jan. 8, 1930).
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An effective cause is found in the recent survey report of the
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Federal Council of <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>es, to be in "the acceptance of a
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scientific view of life ... general questioning of formerly revered
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FORGERY IN <ent type='NORP'>CHRISTIANITY</ent></p>
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<p>mentality of a fifteen-year-old youth. ... Half the people of the
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United <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s have the mentality of a fifteen-year-old youth. Most
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United States have the mentality of a fifteen-year-old youth. Most
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church-goers enjoyed the 'children's sermon' more than the one on
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religious philosophy. ... The average man can carry only one idea
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at a time." (Herald-Tribune, Jan. 28, 1930.) -- Verily, "Of such is
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@ -151,34 +151,34 @@ communicants last year (1929) was 50006566," of which number it
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assigns a total of 18051680 to the fourteen <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ts of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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dis-Unity (Herald-Tribune, April 26, 1930); though the figures of
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<ent type='ORG'>the Catholic Directory</ent> are 20178202. (Ib. April. 16, 1930). Under
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the alarming caption -- "Warns <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> it is Lagging,"
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the alarming caption -- "Warns Protestant <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> it is Lagging,"
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the Report of the Director of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> Survey bemoans: "The
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<ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> is not keeping pace with the
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population. ... <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Protestantism</ent> increased from 7 in each 100
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Protestant <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> is not keeping pace with the
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population. ... <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Protestantism increased from 7 in each 100
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of the population in 1800 to 24 in each 100 of the population of
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1900. During the past thirty years <ent type='NORP'>Protestantism</ent> has not increased
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1900. During the past thirty years Protestantism has not increased
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its ratio of the population as much as one member more per
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hundred." -- This is a very notable disclosure: that for a whole
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century the very vocal and intolerant <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> population of this
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century the very vocal and intolerant Protestant population of this
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country has varied between 7% and 24% of the total population, and
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is today less than 25%: -- yet this petty minority dingdongs that
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this is a "<ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> country," and imposes its ludicrous medieval
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"<ent type='ORG'>Blue Laws</ent>" and tyrannous proscriptions -- as will be noted -- upon
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"Blue Laws" and tyrannous proscriptions -- as will be noted -- upon
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the great anti-clerical majority of the people. And further
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striking figures follow from the same source: "A study made in 1912
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-- [i.e. before Woman Suffrage], -- "exclusively in cities, found
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two-thirds of the <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> city membership consisted of [ix]
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two-thirds of the Protestant city membership consisted of [ix]
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women. ... There has been a steady proportionate decrease of
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interest in religion among women of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>. ... It was
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interest in religion among women of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States. ... It was
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also found [in this present Survey] that only 18 percent of the
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country population is in <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> membership, although it is
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customary to think of country people as highly religious. -- [They,
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too, are becoming more educated.] In <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent>, the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
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population is reported equally divided among <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent>s, <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
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population is reported equally divided among Protestants, <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>s and <ent type='NORP'>Jews</ent>. Only about eight percent of the population are
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members of the <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> churches," -- thus only some 24% of the
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members of the Protestant churches," -- thus only some 24% of the
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people of <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent> among all three much-divided <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ts. (N.Y.
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<ent type='ORG'>Times</ent>, May 5, 1930.) In a recent abusive set of letters by three
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Times, May 5, 1930.) In a recent abusive set of letters by three
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True Believers of the same family name (one a Rev.), addressed to
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the Editor of a <ent type='GPE'>Metropolitan</ent> paper for writing sanely about the
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Tabooed Subject of Birth Control, this was denounced as an "insult
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<p> The true significance to the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of the great slump in its
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membership -- and hence revenues, is crudely "given away" by the
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Very Rev. <ent type='ORG'>Episcopal</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Long Island</ent>, lamenting like
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Very Rev. <ent type='ORG'>Episcopal</ent> Bishop of <ent type='GPE'>Long Island</ent>, lamenting like
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conditions in his Diocese: "The growth of population during the
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last decade on <ent type='GPE'>Long Island</ent> has been a challenge to the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. ...
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The <ent type='ORG'>Episcopal</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> of the diocese advocated [in a public address]
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The <ent type='ORG'>Episcopal</ent> Bishop of the diocese advocated [in a public address]
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a drive to bring into the church the wealthy residents of Long
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Island." (Herald-Tribune, May 6, 1930.) The Most Rev. <ent type='ORG'>Episcopal</ent>
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superior of the last-lamenting has made a famous discovery, and
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with oracular gravity which evokes a smile he assigns its cause:
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"There are no great poets, painters, writers, nor musicians --
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[only great Manikins of <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent>s] -- today, and the cause of this
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[only great Manikins of Bishops] -- today, and the cause of this
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artistic deficiency can be found in the moderns' total disregard
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for religion." (Episc. <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent>: Herald-Tribune, April.
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21, 1930.) And the Highly Rev. <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>the National Capital</ent> thus
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for religion." (Episc. Bishop of <ent type='GPE'>Manhattan</ent>: Herald-Tribune, April.
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21, 1930.) And the Highly Rev. Bishop of <ent type='ORG'>the National</ent> Capital thus
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portentously, and truly, glooms: "There is an organized movement,
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world-wide in scope, to unsettle <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> ideals and <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>
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institutions, both in <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> and elsewhere" (Ib. May 13, 1930); --
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<ent type='PERSON'>Jeremiad</ent> of confession before <ent type='ORG'>the Institute</ent> of Citizenship just
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held in <ent type='GPE'>Atlanta</ent>: "For a thousand years, ever since <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> became a
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<ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> country, and more especially in the last 200 years, when
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the <ent type='PERSON'>Czar</ent> became the official head of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> religion
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the Czar became the official head of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, the State religion
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in <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> was one of the means whereby the <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>n people were
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oppressed, exploited and kept in ignorance. The <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>n people had
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a score to settle with the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> after the revolution, and they
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took full advantage of it" (N.Y. <ent type='ORG'>Times</ent>, April 8, 1930), a like
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took full advantage of it" (N.Y. Times, April 8, 1930), a like
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chance for which all <ent type='ORG'>Christendom</ent> is looking. The very religious
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Editor continues to confess: "It is useless to deny that the
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<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, in most instances, has lost its hold upon vast majorities
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of the people." (Ibid.) At the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> Herald Institute of
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Religion held this year at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., a perfect
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symposium of <ent type='PERSON'>Jeremiads</ent> bewailed Faith on the <ent type='GPE'>Toboggan</ent>: "Unless
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symposium of <ent type='NORP'>Jeremiads</ent> bewailed Faith on the <ent type='GPE'>Toboggan</ent>: "Unless
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emphasis on elaborate creeds does not cease, we will deliver
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ourselves into the hands of the <ent type='NORP'>Humanists</ent> for the defeat which we
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deserve." ... "The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> is simply going to pieces in the small
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precisely so that the olden <ent type='NORP'>Pagan</ent> sneer at the early <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>s is
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perfectly befitting their successors today: "There is no wild beast
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so ferocious as <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>s who differ concerning their faith."
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(<ent type='PERSON'>Lecky</ent>, Rationalism in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, ii, 31.)</p>
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(<ent type='PERSON'>Lecky</ent>, Rationalism in Europe, ii, 31.)</p>
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<p> <ent type='ORG'>BANK</ent> of WISDOM
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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<p> To conclude this review of pregnant figures and confessions,
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two luminous revelations are in one day made of cause and effect.
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Says the eminent Rev. President of <ent type='ORG'>the National Bible Institute</ent>:
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Says the eminent Rev. President of <ent type='ORG'>the National</ent> Bible Institute:
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"... because the Bible has ceased to have authority either in the
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pulpit or in the pew. Decline in church attendance and decrease in
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church membership are almost invariably traceable to unbelief in
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[?] which are involved in the older traditions perish through your
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iconoclasm. That is a formidable task and a harassing one; for one
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can never be quite sure where pedagogical caution ends AND
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DISHONESTY BEGINS"! (Quoted by <ent type='PERSON'>Alva Johnston</ent> in N.Y. <ent type='ORG'>Herald Tribune</ent>, March 8, 1930.)</p>
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DISHONESTY BEGINS"! (Quoted by Alva <ent type='PERSON'>Johnston</ent> in N.Y. <ent type='ORG'>Herald Tribune</ent>, March 8, 1930.)</p>
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<p> The great <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> Father, <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> St. <ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent> (of whom more
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<p> The great <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> Father, Bishop St. <ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent> (of whom more
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hereafter), was wise to the psychology of -- at least -- <ent type='NORP'>Pagan</ent>
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religion -- the mode of its incipience and the manner of its age-long persistence. The priests and the priest-taught, he tells,
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instilled the virus of superstition into their victims when "small
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<p> This truth is strikingly stated in an eloquent period by
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<ent type='ORG'>Ingersoll</ent>, and stunningly confirmed and confessed by the syndicated
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<ent type='PERSON'>Prophet</ent> of <ent type='NORP'>Protestantism</ent> below to be quoted. The former opens his
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Prophet of Protestantism below to be quoted. The former opens his
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classic Why I Am an Agnostic, with these trenchant words:</p>
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<p> "For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs
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heads between boards so as to produce the hideous deformity of
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skull so aesthetically popular among them; but how pleasing to gods
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and priests to fetter the child mind in the bonds of Faith, and so
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to dwarf and deaden the mind's most precious faculty -- <ent type='PERSON'>Reason</ent>! "To
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to dwarf and deaden the mind's most precious faculty -- Reason! "To
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succeed," eloquently said <ent type='ORG'>Ingersoll</ent>, "the theologians invade the
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cradle, the nursery. In the brain of innocence they plant the seeds
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of superstition. They pollute the minds and imaginations of
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children. They frighten the happy with threats of pain -- they
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soothe the wretched with gilded lies. ... All of these comforting
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and reasonable things are taught by the ministers in their pulpits
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-- by teachers in Sunday schools and by parents at home. The
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-- by teachers in <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> schools and by parents at home. The
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children are victims. They are assaulted in the cradle -- in their
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mother's arms. Then, the school-master carries on the war against
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their natural sense, and all the books they read are filled with
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God and his adjutants, all ply amain the arts of enslaving the babe
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in the cradle, the child in the school. In the Encyclical of
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December 31, 1929, the right of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> to the child is
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proclaimed as above that of parents and <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>; the <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ular public
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proclaimed as above that of parents and State; the <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ular public
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schools are damned, and the prole of the Faithful are forbidden to
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attend and mingle with the "irreligious" <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> pupils: "the
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attend and mingle with the "irreligious" State pupils: "the
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frequenting of non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> schools, namely, those which are open
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to <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> and non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> alike, is forbidden to <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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children," as such a school is not "a fit place for <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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into them; a work so wide-spread and active, that the Cardinal
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Archbishop of the City, addressing over 2000 of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
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Teachers Association, "praises their work of teaching faith in City
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Institutions." (N.Y. <ent type='ORG'>Times</ent>, Nov. 25, 1928.) And every rationalist
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Institutions." (N.Y. Times, Nov. 25, 1928.) And every rationalist
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effort to counteract such illegal propaganda and to free the
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schools from the pernicious influences of superstition, is
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denounced and opposed by the Bible bootleggers of every brand of
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priestcraft.</p>
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<p> In an ironical letter to the <ent type='NORP'>English</ent> press, in which he
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"enters the lists against the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> critics of <ent type='GPE'>Moscow</ent>'s anti-clerical policy," <ent type='PERSON'>George Bernard Shaw</ent>, writing under a transparent
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"enters the lists against the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> critics of Moscow's anti-clerical policy," <ent type='PERSON'>George Bernard Shaw</ent>, writing under a transparent
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<ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>n pseudonym, says: "In <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> we take religious questions </p>
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<p> <ent type='ORG'>BANK</ent> of WISDOM
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means nothing but hypocrisy and humbug." (Herald-Tribune, April 7,
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1930.)</p>
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<p> Thus the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> enchains the <ent type='PERSON'>Reason</ent>. The proudest boast today
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<p> Thus the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> enchains the Reason. The proudest boast today
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of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> for its ex-<ent type='NORP'>Pagan</ent> Saint <ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent>, is that: "as soon
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as a contradiction -- [between his "philosophy" and his religious
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doctrines] -- arises, he never hesitates to subordinate his
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philosophy to religion, reason to faith"! (Cath. Encyc. ii, 86.) So
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this great ex-<ent type='NORP'>Pagan</ent> Saint of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> surrenders his reason to
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faith, and avers: "I would not believe the <ent type='PERSON'>Gospel</ent>s to be true,
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faith, and avers: "I would not believe the Gospels to be true,
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unless <ent type='ORG'>the authority</ent> of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> constrained me"!
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(<ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent>, De Genesi.)</p>
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<p> Taking up now more particularly the <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ond phase of my
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subject, I here propose to treat of the inveterate forgeries,
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frauds, impostures, and mendacities of <ent type='ORG'>Priestcraft</ent> and its
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frauds, impostures, and mendacities of Priestcraft and its
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Theology. I shall be explicit and plain spoken, and unmistakably
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state my purpose and my proofs. For nearly two thousand years the
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priestcraft of <ent type='ORG'>Christendom</ent>, for purposes of domination by fear and
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<p>misbeliever, has become the synonym for everything foul and
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criminal in human nature. The day of reckoning and of repudiation
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is at hand; <ent type='ORG'>Priestcraft</ent> has here its destroying answer, in very
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is at hand; Priestcraft has here its destroying answer, in very
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plain and unafraid words.</p>
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<p> This book is a grave indictment, impossible to be made or to
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unconscionable imposture.</p>
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<p> 6. That every conceivable form of religious lie, fraud and
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imposture has ever been the work of <ent type='PERSON'>Priest</ent>s; and through all the
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imposture has ever been the work of Priests; and through all the
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history of the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, as through all human history, has
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been -- and, so far as they have not been shamed out of it by
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skeptical ridicule and exposure, yet is, the age-long stock in
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.
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FORGERY IN <ent type='NORP'>CHRISTIANITY</ent></p>
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<p> As the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent>-Skeptic Bayle, of seventeenth
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century fame, said: "I am most truly a <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent>; for I protest
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<p> As the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>-Protestant-Skeptic Bayle, of seventeenth
|
||||
century fame, said: "I am most truly a Protestant; for I protest
|
||||
indifferently against all systems and all <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ts" of religious
|
||||
imposture.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -651,8 +651,8 @@ he doth never know." The same critical cleric at another place
|
|||
said: "Still less was it ever intended that men should so
|
||||
prostitute their reason, as to believe with infallible faith what
|
||||
they are unable to prove with infallible arguments."
|
||||
(<ent type='PERSON'>Chillingworth</ent>, Religion of <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent>s, pp. 66, 412.) With
|
||||
infallible facts I purpose to blast the false pretenses of <ent type='PERSON'>Priest</ent>-forged Faith.</p>
|
||||
(Chillingworth, Religion of Protestants, pp. 66, 412.) With
|
||||
infallible facts I purpose to blast the false pretenses of Priest-forged Faith.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It is matter of fact, that for some 1500 years of this Era
|
||||
there was but one "True <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>" of Christ; and that <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> claims
|
||||
|
@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ beneficiary. All the other <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> <ent type='ORG'>sec<
|
|||
severed from the original One True <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>; -- "all other forms of
|
||||
the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> religion . . . originated by <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ession from the True
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, ... and their founders ... were externally members of the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>." (CE. vii, 367.) All these <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ts, therefore,
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>." (CE. vii, 367.) All these Protestant <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ts, therefore,
|
||||
with full knowledge of the guilty facts and partakers in the
|
||||
frauds, found their claim to Divinity -- and priestly emoluments --
|
||||
upon and through those tainted titles, and thus yet fully share the
|
||||
|
@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ original Forgers of the Faith.</p>
|
|||
<p> The proofs of my indictment are marvelously easy. They are to
|
||||
be found in <ent type='ORG'>amplest</ent> retore of history and accredited ecclesiastic
|
||||
authorities, and in abounding incautious admissions made by the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Recredited</ent> spokesmen of the Accused: upon these I shall freely and
|
||||
Recredited spokesmen of the Accused: upon these I shall freely and
|
||||
fully draw for complete proofs of my every specification. These
|
||||
damning things of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, scattered through many clerical
|
||||
volumes and concealed in many archives, are not well known to the
|
||||
|
@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ article by the Encyclopedia, -- very many others will follow in due
|
|||
course from the same source:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "Substitution of false documents and tampering with genuine
|
||||
ones was quite a trade in the Middle Ages. <ent type='PERSON'>Innocent III</ent> (1198)
|
||||
ones was quite a trade in the Middle Ages. Innocent III (1198)
|
||||
points out nine species of forgery [of ecclesiastical records]
|
||||
which had come under his notice." (CE. vi, 136.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ may plead <ent type='ORG'>the authority</ent> of the Fathers for Forgery, Corrup
|
|||
mangling of Authors, with more reason than for any of their
|
||||
Articles of Faith." (p. 96.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Eusebius</ent> of <ent type='PERSON'>Caesarea</ent>, the great "Father of <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
||||
<p> Bishop <ent type='PERSON'>Eusebius</ent> of <ent type='PERSON'>Caesarea</ent>, the great "Father of <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Hist</ent>ory" (324 A.D.) whom <ent type='PERSON'>Niebuhr</ent> terms "a very dishonest writer,"
|
||||
-- of which we shall see many notable instances, -- says this: "But
|
||||
it is not our place to describe the sad misfortunes which finally
|
||||
|
@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ letter which he wrote to his own <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, of the non-natura
|
|||
in which he accepted it." (Cath. Encyc. v, 619.) As St. <ent type='PERSON'>Jerome</ent>
|
||||
says, "<ent type='PERSON'>Eusebius</ent> is the most open champion of the <ent type='NORP'>Arian</ent> heresy,"
|
||||
which denies the <ent type='ORG'>Trinity</ent>. (<ent type='PERSON'>Jerome</ent>, Epist. 84, 2; N&PNF. vi, 176.)
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Eusebius</ent>, as we shall see, was one of the most prolific
|
||||
Bishop <ent type='PERSON'>Eusebius</ent>, as we shall see, was one of the most prolific
|
||||
forgers and liars of his age of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, and a great romancer;
|
||||
in his hair-raising histories of the holy Martyrs, he assures us
|
||||
"that on some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been
|
||||
|
@ -812,10 +812,10 @@ found alive in their stomachs, even after having been fully
|
|||
digested"! (quoted, <ent type='PERSON'>Gibbon</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Hist</ent>ory, Ch. 37; Lardner, iv, p. 91;
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Diegesis</ent>, p. 272). To such an extent had the "pious frauds of the
|
||||
theologians been thus early systematized and raised to the dignity
|
||||
of a regular doctrine," that <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Eusebius</ent>, "in one of the most
|
||||
of a regular doctrine," that Bishop <ent type='PERSON'>Eusebius</ent>, "in one of the most
|
||||
learned and elaborate works that antiquity has left us, the Thirty-<ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ond Chapter of the Twelfth Book of his Evangelical Preparation,
|
||||
bears for its title this scandalous proposition: 'How it may be
|
||||
Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a <ent type='ORG'>Medicine</ent>, and for the
|
||||
Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a Medicine, and for the
|
||||
Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived'" -- (quoting the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent>
|
||||
title; <ent type='PERSON'>Gibbon</ent>, Vindication, p. 76).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
FORGERY IN <ent type='NORP'>CHRISTIANITY</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> St. <ent type='PERSON'>John Chrysostom</ent>, the "'Golden Mouthed," in his work 'On
|
||||
the <ent type='PERSON'>Priest</ent>hood,' has a curious panegyric on the clerical habit of
|
||||
the Priesthood,' has a curious panegyric on the clerical habit of
|
||||
telling lies -- "Great is the force of deceit! provided it is not
|
||||
excited by a treacherous intention."' (Comm. on I Cor. ix, 19;
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Diegesis</ent>, p. 309.) <ent type='PERSON'>Chrysostom</ent> was one of the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent> Fathers of the
|
||||
|
@ -875,10 +875,10 @@ again, of the incentive offered by the gullible ignorance of the
|
|||
Faithful, for the glib mendacities of the priests: "There is
|
||||
nothing so easy as by sheer volubility to deceive a common crowd or
|
||||
an uneducated congregation." (Epist. lii, 8; p. 93.) Father
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Jerome</ent>'s own high regard for truth and his zeal in propaganda of
|
||||
Jerome's own high regard for truth and his zeal in propaganda of
|
||||
fables for edification of the ignorant ex-pagan <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>s is
|
||||
illustrated in numberless instances. He tells us of the river
|
||||
Ganges in <ent type='GPE'>India</ent>, which "has its source in <ent type='LOC'>Paradise</ent>"; that in <ent type='GPE'>India</ent>
|
||||
Ganges in India, which "has its source in Paradise"; that in India
|
||||
"are also mountains of gold, which however men cannot approach by
|
||||
reason of the griffins, dragons, and huge monsters which haunt </p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -930,9 +930,9 @@ Hermit, N&PNF. vi, 299 seq.)</p>
|
|||
and pretenses "to the glory of God," that St. <ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent>, about 395
|
||||
A.D., wrote a reproving treatise to the Clergy, De Mendacio (On
|
||||
Lying), which he found necessary to supplement in 420 with another
|
||||
book, <ent type='ORG'>Contra Mendacium</ent> (Against Lying). This work, says <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent>
|
||||
Wordsworth, "is a protest against these 'pious frauds' which have
|
||||
brought discredit and damage on the cause of the <ent type='PERSON'>Gospel</ent>, and have
|
||||
book, <ent type='ORG'>Contra Mendacium</ent> (Against Lying). This work, says Bishop
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Wordsworth</ent>, "is a protest against these 'pious frauds' which have
|
||||
brought discredit and damage on the cause of the Gospel, and have
|
||||
created prejudice against it, from the days of <ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent> to our own
|
||||
times." (A <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Hist</ent>ory, iv, 93, 94.) While <ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent> disapproves
|
||||
of downright lying even to trap heretics, -- a practice seemingly
|
||||
|
@ -958,11 +958,11 @@ or speaks of things temporal pertaining to edification of religion
|
|||
or piety, to conceal at fitting times whatever seems fit to be
|
||||
concealed; but to tell a lie is never lawful, therefore neither to
|
||||
conceal by telling a lie." (<ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent>, On Lying, ch. 19; N&PNF.
|
||||
iii, 466.) The great <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> did not, however, it seems, read his
|
||||
iii, 466.) The great Bishop did not, however, it seems, read his
|
||||
own code when it came to preaching unto edification, for in one of
|
||||
his own sermons he thus relates a very notable experience: "I was
|
||||
already <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> of <ent type='PERSON'>Hippo</ent>, when I went into <ent type='GPE'>Ethiopia</ent> with some
|
||||
servants of Christ there to preach the <ent type='PERSON'>Gospel</ent>. In this country we
|
||||
already Bishop of <ent type='PERSON'>Hippo</ent>, when I went into <ent type='GPE'>Ethiopia</ent> with some
|
||||
servants of Christ there to preach the Gospel. In this country we
|
||||
saw many men and women without heads, who had two great eyes in
|
||||
their breasts; and in countries still more southly, we saw people
|
||||
who had but one eye in their foreheads." (<ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent>, Sermon 37;
|
||||
|
@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ eyes, listening intently without ears, and understanding perfectly
|
|||
without brains, the spirited and spiritual harangue of the eloquent
|
||||
and veracious St. <ent type='PERSON'>Augustine</ent>. And every hearer of the Sermon in
|
||||
which he told about it, believed in furness of faith and infantile
|
||||
credulity every word of the noble <ent type='PERSON'>Bishop</ent> of <ent type='PERSON'>Hippo</ent>, giving thanks to
|
||||
credulity every word of the noble Bishop of <ent type='PERSON'>Hippo</ent>, giving thanks to
|
||||
God that the words of life and salvation had been by him carried to
|
||||
so remarkable a tribe of God's curious children.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1038,12 +1038,12 @@ ages of using the hyperbolical style to advance the honor of God
|
|||
and the salvation of men." (<ent type='PERSON'>Free Inq</ent>. p. 83; citing Jo., <ent type='ORG'>Hist</ent>.
|
||||
Eccles. p. 681.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Lecky</ent>, the distinguished author of the <ent type='ORG'>Hist</ent>ory of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an
|
||||
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Lecky</ent>, the distinguished author of the <ent type='ORG'>Hist</ent>ory of European
|
||||
Morals, devotes much research into what he describes as "the
|
||||
deliberate and apparently perfectly unscrupulous forgery, of a
|
||||
whole literature, destined to further the propagation either of
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>ity as a whole, or of some particular class of tenets."
|
||||
(<ent type='PERSON'>Lecky</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Hist</ent>. of <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an Morals, vol. i, p. 375.)</p>
|
||||
(<ent type='PERSON'>Lecky</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Hist</ent>. of European Morals, vol. i, p. 375.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In his very notable <ent type='ORG'>Hist</ent>ory of Rationalism speaking of that
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> "epoch when faith and facts did not cultivate an
|
||||
|
@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ acquaintance," the same author, <ent type='PERSON'>Lecky</ent>, thus describes t
|
|||
intellectual and moral obliquity into which the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> had forced
|
||||
even the ablest classes of society:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "During that gloomy period the only scholars in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> were
|
||||
<p> "During that gloomy period the only scholars in Europe were
|
||||
priest and monks, who conscientiously believed that no amount of
|
||||
falsehood was reprehensible which conduced to the edification of
|
||||
the people. ... All their writings, and more especially their
|
||||
|
@ -1084,11 +1084,11 @@ combatted, and therefore prophecies of Christ by Orpheus and the
|
|||
Sibyls -- were forged, lying wonders were multiplied. ... Heretics
|
||||
were to be convinced, and therefore interpolations of old writings
|
||||
or complete forgeries were habitually opposed to the forged
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Gospel</ent>s. ... The tendency ... triumphed wherever the supreme
|
||||
Gospels. ... The tendency ... triumphed wherever the supreme
|
||||
importance of dogmas was held. Generation after generation it
|
||||
became more universal; it continued till the very sense of truth
|
||||
and the very love of truth seemed blotted out from the minds of
|
||||
men." (<ent type='PERSON'>Lecky</ent>, Rationalism in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, i, 396-7.)</p>
|
||||
men." (<ent type='PERSON'>Lecky</ent>, Rationalism in Europe, i, 396-7.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> There is thus disclosed a very sharp and shaming contrast
|
||||
between the precept of the Lord <ent type='PERSON'>Buddha</ent>: "Thou shalt not attempt,
|
||||
|
@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ another." (Quoted Opera, Ed. Gron., p. 3806.) We shall see all too
|
|||
well that the <ent type='NORP'>Pagan</ent> estimate holds good for the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>; that, as
|
||||
said by the "universal scholar" Grotius: "Ecclesiastical history
|
||||
consists of nothing but the wickedness of the governing clergy, --
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Qui</ent> legit <ent type='PERSON'>historiam Ecclesiasticam</ent>, quid legit nisi Episcoporum
|
||||
Qui legit historiam Ecclesiasticam, quid legit nisi Episcoporum
|
||||
vicia?" (Epistolae, p. 7, col. 1).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The universality of the frauds and impostures of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>,
|
||||
|
@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ Holy <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>: "And no man surely can doubt, but that those,
|
|||
would either forge, or make use of forged books, would, in the same
|
||||
cause, and for the same ends, make use of forged miracles" (A Free
|
||||
Inquiry, Introd. Discourse, p. lxxxvii); -- as well as of forged
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Gospel</ent>s, Epistles, <ent type='PERSON'>Creed</ent>s, Saint-tales -- vast extensions of pious
|
||||
Gospels, Epistles, <ent type='PERSON'>Creed</ent>s, Saint-tales -- vast extensions of pious
|
||||
frauds of which we shall see a plethora of examples.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The proofs here to be arrayed for conviction are drawn from
|
||||
|
@ -1143,12 +1143,12 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
.
|
||||
FORGERY IN <ent type='NORP'>CHRISTIANITY</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>taken verbatim from the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>'s own histories and historians.
|
||||
<p>taken verbatim from the Church's own histories and historians.
|
||||
These clerical works of confession and confusion are for the most
|
||||
part three ponderous sets of volumes; they are readily accessible
|
||||
for verification of my recitals, and for further instances, in good
|
||||
libraries and bookshops; the libraries of the Union Theological
|
||||
Seminary and of <ent type='ORG'>Columbia University</ent>, in <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent>, were the
|
||||
Seminary and of <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> University, in <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent>, were the
|
||||
places of the finds here recorded. Cited so often, space will be
|
||||
saved for more valuable uses by citing by their initials, -- which
|
||||
will become very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities,
|
||||
|
@ -1157,14 +1157,14 @@ towit:</p>
|
|||
<p> The Ante-Niceite Fathers, cited as <ent type='ORG'>ANF</ent>.; A Collection of the
|
||||
extant Writings of all the Founders of <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>ity down to the
|
||||
Council of Nicaea, or Nice, in 325 A.D. <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Reprint, eight
|
||||
volumes. The <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> Literature Publishing Co., Buffalo, N.Y.,
|
||||
volumes. The <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> Literature Publishing Co., <ent type='GPE'>Buffalo</ent>, N.Y.,
|
||||
1885.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, cited as N&PNF.; First and
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Sec</ent>ond Series; many volumes; same publishers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Encyclopedia, cited as CE.; fifteen volumes and
|
||||
index, published under the <ent type='PERSON'>Imprimatur</ent> of Archbishop <ent type='PERSON'>Farley</ent>; New
|
||||
index, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop <ent type='PERSON'>Farley</ent>; New
|
||||
York, <ent type='ORG'>Robert Appleton</ent> Co., 1907-9.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Encyclopedia Biblica, cited as EB., four volumes; Adam &
|
||||
|
@ -1182,24 +1182,24 @@ We shall see.</p>
|
|||
furious din of religious intolerance, bigotry and per<ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ution;
|
||||
pestiferous medieval laws are imposed to stop the voice of Science
|
||||
teaching truths which impugn the ignorant myths of Bible and
|
||||
Theology. <ent type='GPE'>Tennessee</ent> and several <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s of the Union have passed
|
||||
Theology. <ent type='GPE'>Tennessee</ent> and several States of the Union have passed
|
||||
laws making criminal the teaching of scientific facts which
|
||||
contradict "the story of the divine creation of man as taught in
|
||||
the Bible," and like Hillbilly legislation is sought in all the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s. The True <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> lays down this amazing limitation on
|
||||
States. The True <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> lays down this amazing limitation on
|
||||
learning: "When a clearly defined dogma contradicts a scientific
|
||||
assertion, the latter has to be revised,"! (CE. xiii, 607.) The
|
||||
civilized portion of the world has just been shocked at the
|
||||
potential judicial murder and outrage sanctioned by law in <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent>
|
||||
Carolina, as likewise in a number of other <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s, making outlaws
|
||||
Carolina, as likewise in a number of other States, making outlaws
|
||||
of honest persons who, as parties in interest or witnesses in
|
||||
actions civil and criminal, refuse to take the ridiculous and
|
||||
degrading Form of Oath "upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God,
|
||||
degrading Form of Oath "upon the Holy <ent type='NORP'>Evangelists</ent> of Almighty God,
|
||||
in token of his engagement to speak the truth, as he hopes to be
|
||||
saved in the way and method of salvation pointed out in that
|
||||
blessed volume, and in further token that, if he should swerve from
|
||||
the truth, he may be justly deprived of all the blessings of the
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Gospel</ent>, and be made liable to that vengeance which he has
|
||||
Gospel, and be made liable to that vengeance which he has
|
||||
imprecated on his own head." (Consol. Stat. N.C., 1919, <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>. 3189.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> <ent type='ORG'>BANK</ent> of WISDOM
|
||||
|
@ -1220,33 +1220,33 @@ outlaws -- refused "the equal protection of the law"! In <ent type='GPE'>Marylan
|
|||
later in the same year 1929, a chicken-thief, caught in the act of
|
||||
robbery by the owner, was discharged in court because the owner of
|
||||
the property, a Freethinker, was not permitted under the infamous
|
||||
similar statute of that godly <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> to give testimony in court
|
||||
similar statute of that godly State to give testimony in court
|
||||
against the criminal: the case would have been the same, if the
|
||||
life or liberty of the <ent type='NORP'>Infidel</ent> citizen had been at stake, -- he was
|
||||
an outlaw denied the "equal protection of the law"! The benighted
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>State</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Arkansas</ent> -- ("Now laugh!") -- declares infamously in its
|
||||
State of <ent type='GPE'>Arkansas</ent> -- ("Now laugh!") -- declares infamously in its
|
||||
Constitution: "No person who denies the being of a God shall hold
|
||||
any office in the civil government of this <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>, nor be competent
|
||||
any office in the civil government of this State, nor be competent
|
||||
to testify as a witness in any court"! (Const. Ark., Art. XIX, <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>.
|
||||
26.) Under this accursed act of outlawry, <ent type='PERSON'>Charles Lee Smith</ent>, of New
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>York City</ent>, a native of <ent type='GPE'>Arkansas</ent>, went to his home city of Little
|
||||
Rock in the Fall of 1928 to oppose the degrading proposition
|
||||
proposed as a law in a popular initiative election, forbidding the
|
||||
teaching of Evolution in the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>-supported schools and
|
||||
teaching of Evolution in the State-supported schools and
|
||||
universities; he made some remarks reflecting upon the personal
|
||||
integrity of the Almighty, as well as denying his existence; twice
|
||||
was he arrested, thrown into jail, convicted, and was denied the
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right to testify as a witness in his own behalf; he is today on
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bail to answer to the decision of <ent type='ORG'>the Supreme Court</ent> of that <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>,
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bail to answer to the decision of <ent type='ORG'>the Supreme Court</ent> of that State,
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an outlaw, denied the "equal protection of the law" of the land!
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The hypocrisy and self-stultification imposed by such detestable
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laws, is finely illustrated: At the recent annual meeting of the
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<ent type='ORG'>American Law Institute</ent>, I denounced this Article to a leader of the
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<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Law Institute, I denounced this Article to a leader of the
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<ent type='GPE'>Arkansas</ent> Bar, and appealed to him to "start something" to get rid
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of it. He shrugged his shoulders, smiled in sympathy, and said: "It
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is in the Constitution, and too difficult to get it out." Then,
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dropping into Spanish, so that others at the table might not
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understand, he added: "Yo no <ent type='PERSON'>creo</ent> nada, -- y no digo nada -- I
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understand, he added: "Yo no creo nada, -- y no digo nada -- I
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believe nothing -- and I say nothing"! While these infamies are
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inflicted upon the citizens of this country by law imposed by a
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bigoted and ignorant minority of superstitious parsons and their
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@ -1254,12 +1254,12 @@ docile dupes; -- aye, even if imposed by an overwhelming majority,
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or by authentic decree of God himself, -- the free and fearless
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defiers of <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and despisers of its Superstition will fight it
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on to the death, till every trace of these infamies is purged out
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of the statute books of these sovereign <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s! This is due and
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of the statute books of these sovereign States! This is due and
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solemn notice and defiance to the intolerant religious oppressors
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and their deluded dupes.</p>
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<p> Medieval laws against the fictitious crime of "Blasphemy"
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survive in a dozen <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s, protecting by law the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>
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survive in a dozen <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> States, protecting by law the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>
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superstition of the old Hebrew God. A model of them all is this
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infamous enactment of the <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>-ridden <ent type='GPE'>Massachusetts</ent>: "Whoever
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wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or
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@ -1279,23 +1279,23 @@ shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one
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year or by fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may
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also be bound to good behavior." (Gen. Laws Mass., 1921; Chap. 272,
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<ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>. 36.) Expressed contempt is held in lighter pecuniary
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estimation in the Yankee "Nutmeg <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>," the fine being only
|
||||
estimation in the Yankee "Nutmeg State," the fine being only
|
||||
$100.00, plus the year in gaol. (Gen. Stat. Conn., 1918, <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>.
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6395.) In both <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>s, under these infamous laws, persons have been
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||||
6395.) In both States, under these infamous laws, persons have been
|
||||
indicted, tried and convicted within the past two years! Throughout
|
||||
the Union are odious religious statutes, "<ent type='ORG'>Blue Laws</ent>" and Sunday
|
||||
the Union are odious religious statutes, "Blue Laws" and <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent>
|
||||
Laws, penalizing innocuous diversions and activities of the people
|
||||
on days of religious <ent type='ORG'>Voodoo</ent>: Sunday, as we shall see, being a
|
||||
on days of religious <ent type='ORG'>Voodoo</ent>: <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent>, as we shall see, being a
|
||||
plagiarization from the religion of <ent type='ORG'>Mithras</ent>, and created a <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>ular
|
||||
holiday -- not a religious <ent type='EVENT'>Holy Day</ent> -- by law of the <ent type='NORP'>Pagan</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Constantine</ent>. Such laws sometimes prove troublesome to the pious
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Puritans</ent> themselves; an amusing instance of their boomerang effect
|
||||
being now chronicled to the annoyed and sneering world. Some "400"
|
||||
of the True Believers of the "Holy Name Society" of St. Peter's
|
||||
R.C, <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of New Brunswick, in the saintly <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent>,
|
||||
R.C, <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of New Brunswick, in the saintly State of <ent type='GPE'>New Jersey</ent>,
|
||||
including several City "Fathers" stuck their legs under the loaded
|
||||
tables of the local hostlery for a "<ent type='ORG'>Holy Communion</ent> Breakfast" the
|
||||
past Sunday; as they began to eat they discovered to their pious
|
||||
past <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent>; as they began to eat they discovered to their pious
|
||||
dismay that there was no bread on the tables, although the
|
||||
reservation had long before been made, with particular stress on a
|
||||
special brand of rolls, made only in the godless town of <ent type='GPE'>Newark</ent>.
|
||||
|
@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ warning," and he consummated the violation by delivering the
|
|||
forbidden rolls to the angry Holy Namers. (Herald-Tribune, May 14,
|
||||
1930.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Now, throughout the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>, and in far off <ent type='GPE'>Ohio</ent>, at the
|
||||
<p> Now, throughout the State, and in far off <ent type='GPE'>Ohio</ent>, at the
|
||||
instigation of the parsons, these pestiferous pious laws are being
|
||||
forced into enforcement, headlined -- "Blue Law Net Busy in
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Jersey</ent>," and recorded: "hundreds of names and addresses were in the
|
||||
|
@ -1323,11 +1323,11 @@ or operated trolley cars, busses or trains in this capital city (of
|
|||
column, a dispatch from <ent type='GPE'>Dover</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Ohio</ent>, that the police used tear-gas
|
||||
bombs to dislodge the operator from the projection-box of a local
|
||||
"movie" theater, who, with the owner and four employees, was
|
||||
"arrested for violation of the Sunday closing law"! (N.Y. Sun, May
|
||||
"arrested for violation of the <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> closing law"! (N.Y. <ent type='LOC'>Sun</ent>, May
|
||||
26, 1930.) And all this medieval absurdity of repressive penal
|
||||
legislation to enforce obsolete religious observance by
|
||||
disbelievers, in a land whose every constitution proclaims the
|
||||
complete separation of <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>! But for the defiance of
|
||||
complete separation of State and <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>! But for the defiance of
|
||||
fearless heroes of Rationalism who have through the ages contended,</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> <ent type='ORG'>BANK</ent> of WISDOM
|
||||
|
@ -1354,15 +1354,15 @@ liberties and the innate rights of man. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, too, t
|
|||
the ages has been and yet nefariously is "in polities," seeking to
|
||||
dictate and dominate and impose its malign superstitions by law:
|
||||
witness the two last presidential campaigns, and the pernicious
|
||||
activities of <ent type='ORG'>the Methodist Board</ent> of Intolerance, Meddling and
|
||||
activities of the Methodist Board of Intolerance, Meddling and
|
||||
Public Nuisance, as now being revealed by the Lobbying
|
||||
Investigation Committee of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Senate</ent>, whereby it is
|
||||
Investigation Committee of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States Senate, whereby it is
|
||||
shown seeking to ruborn and subordinate all to its intolerant
|
||||
superstitious dominance. In most <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an countries the True <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
||||
superstitious dominance. In most European countries the True <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
||||
maintains its blatant "<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Party" in the elections and in the
|
||||
parliaments; here it operations are via the "grape-vine" route,"
|
||||
but effective, as through the corrupt machinations of St. Tammany;
|
||||
while <ent type='ORG'>the Methodist Party</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>the Baptist Party</ent>, and their allies
|
||||
while the Methodist Party and <ent type='ORG'>the Baptist Party</ent>, and their allies
|
||||
the Ku Klux Klan pursue the same evil ends through vocal
|
||||
frightening of cheap politicians and of large <ent type='ORG'>sec</ent>tions of the
|
||||
people and press. The very pious Editor of the <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> Herald has
|
||||
|
@ -1371,14 +1371,14 @@ cynical frankness he asserts its right and discloses its odious
|
|||
methods.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> These odious things are all the work and blighting effects of
|
||||
the unholy '<ent type='ORG'>Odium Theologicum</ent>' of <ent type='ORG'>Priestcraft</ent>, poisoning men's
|
||||
the unholy 'Odium Theologicum' of Priestcraft, poisoning men's
|
||||
minds with the rancor of obsolete superstitious beliefs.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Remove the cause, the cure is automatically and quickly
|
||||
effected. To contribute to the speedier consummation of this
|
||||
supreme boon is the motive and justification of this book. It gives
|
||||
to the unctuous quack "Doctors of Divinity" a copious dose out of
|
||||
their own nauseous <ent type='PERSON'>Pharmacopaeia</ent> of <ent type='PERSON'>Priest</ent>ly Mendacity. As it takes
|
||||
their own nauseous Pharmacopaeia of Priestly Mendacity. As it takes
|
||||
its deadly effect upon themselves, haply their "incurably
|
||||
religious" duped patients may begin to evidence hopeful symptoms of
|
||||
a wholesome, speedy and complete cure from their priest-made
|
||||
|
@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ hear, hear; and govern himself accordingly. Every awakened Believer
|
|||
must feel outraged in his dignity and self-respect, and in disgust
|
||||
must repudiate the <ent type='PERSON'>Creed</ent> and its impostors.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> When a notorious <ent type='ORG'>Criminal</ent> is arraigned at the bar of <ent type='ORG'>Justice</ent>
|
||||
<p> When a notorious <ent type='ORG'>Criminal</ent> is arraigned at the bar of Justice
|
||||
and put to trial for deeds of crime and shame, it is his crimes,
|
||||
his criminal career and record, which are the subject of inquiry ,
|
||||
-- which are exposed and denounced -- for conviction. No weight in
|
||||
|
@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@ confessions of its criminality, for condign judgment upon it.</p>
|
|||
|
||||
<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Goliath</ent> of Gath was a very big <ent type='ORG'>Giant</ent>; but a small pebble,
|
||||
artfully slung, brought him to a sudden and violent collapse, a
|
||||
huge corpse. This <ent type='ORG'>TNT</ent>. bomb of a book, loaded with barbed facts, is
|
||||
huge corpse. This TNT. bomb of a book, loaded with barbed facts, is
|
||||
flung full in facie ecclesiae -- into the face of the Forgery-founded <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> and all her discordant broods. The "gates of hell"
|
||||
will be exploded!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1440,15 +1440,15 @@ June 1, 1930</p>
|
|||
|
||||
<p>Foreword: vii</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I: PAGAN FRAUDS-<ent type='NORP'>CHRISTIAN</ent> PRECEDENTS 3</p>
|
||||
<p>I: <ent type='NORP'>PAGAN</ent> FRAUDS-<ent type='NORP'>CHRISTIAN</ent> PRECEDENTS 3</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>II: HEBREW HOLY <ent type='ORG'>FORGERIES</ent> 45</p>
|
||||
<p>II: HEBREW HOLY FORGERIES 45</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>III: <ent type='NORP'>CHRISTIAN</ent> "SCRIPTURE" <ent type='ORG'>FORGERIES</ent> 91</p>
|
||||
<p>III: <ent type='NORP'>CHRISTIAN</ent> "SCRIPTURE" FORGERIES 91</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>IV: THE SAINTLY "FATHERS" OF THE FAITH 123</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>V: THE "GOSPEL" <ent type='ORG'>FORGERIES</ent> 172</p>
|
||||
<p>V: THE "GOSPEL" FORGERIES 172</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>VI: THE CHURCH FORGERY MILL 238</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ adviseable to take note of these oft-used references now. EFF</p>
|
|||
<p> Abbreviations for most often used sources:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The libraries of <ent type='ORG'>the Union Theological Seminary</ent> and of
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Columbia University</ent>, in <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent>, were the places of the finds
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> University, in <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent>, were the places of the finds
|
||||
here recorded. Cited so often, space will be saved for more
|
||||
valuable uses by citing by their initials, -- which will become
|
||||
very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities, towit:</p>
|
||||
|
@ -1488,13 +1488,13 @@ very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities, towit:</p>
|
|||
the extant Writings of all the Founders of <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>ity
|
||||
down to <ent type='ORG'>the Council</ent> of Nicaea, or Nice, in 325 A.D.
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Reprint, eight volumes. The <ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent> Literature
|
||||
Publishing Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1885. [xxx]</p>
|
||||
Publishing Co., <ent type='GPE'>Buffalo</ent>, N.Y., 1885. [xxx]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>N&PNF.; The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, cited as N&PNF.;
|
||||
First and <ent type='ORG'>Sec</ent>ond Series; many volumes; same publishers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>CE.; The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Encyclopedia, cited as CE.; fifteen volumes
|
||||
and index, published under the <ent type='PERSON'>Imprimatur</ent> of Archbishop
|
||||
and index, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Farley</ent>; <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Robert Appleton</ent> Co., 1907-9.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>EB., The Encyclopedia Biblica, cited as EB., four volumes;
|
||||
|
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