Other creeds and forms in infinite contempt, divided the world intoĮnemies and friends, and verified the awful declaration of itsįounder - a declaration that wet with blood the sword he came toīring, and made the horizon of a thousand years lurid with the Such a religion is necessarily uncompromising, Inspired book, and but one little narrow grass-grown path that If that religion be true, there is but one savior, one Christianity cannot live in peace with any other form ofįaith. Hold by falsehood what she gained by cruelty and force, by fire andįear. Regrets, not the abuse, but the loss of her power, and seeks to To gratify curiosity the chains are rusting away, and theĭemolition of time has allowed even the dungeons of the Inquisition The old instruments of torture are kept only Having expressed in an exceedingly mild and gentle way, the ideasĮntertained by me, I congratulate myself that calumny is now the Women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for Remembering that only a few years ago men, Smote like a sword but, the supply having greatly exceeded theĭemand, clerical misrepresentation has at last become almost an There was a time when a falsehood, fulminated from the pulpit, The contradictions of the Pentateuch will still demand an Story of the flood will remain just as improbable as before, and Should it turn out that I am the worst man in the whole world, the Personal abuse that there is no logic in slander, and thatįalsehood, in the long run, defeats itself, People who love theirĮnemies should, at least, tell the truth about their friends. May be proper for one to say, that arguments cannot be answered by Principal points in all my lectures on this subject.
Mistakes of reporters and printers, I concluded to publish the To keep these reverend gentlemen from wasting their talents on the Times, and many of the clergy are still engaged in the great work. As published, they have been answered several hundred All these publications were grossly and glaringly It was reported and published without consent, and without The lecture was never written andĬonsequently never delivered twice the same. Point out some of the errors, contradictions, and impossibilitiesĬontained in the Pentateuch. Seemed more reasonable that savage men had made these laws and IĮndeavored in a lecture, entitled "Some Mistakes of Moses," to Mercy, by violating maidens and by butchering babes. Written by inspired men that slavery, polygamy, wars of conquestĪnd extermination were right, and that there was a time when menĬould win the approbation of infinite Intelligence, Justice, and To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was Thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts. The ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and Record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of This file, its printout, or copies of eitherĪre to be copied and given away, but NOT sold.īank of Wisdom, Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201įor many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. Some Mistakes Of Moses Robert Green Ingersoll Order books by and about Robert Ingersoll now. Similarly, we do not reply to feedback regarding faulty scholarship on the part of dead authors, nor do we correct spelling errors and/or typographical errors (most of which result from the scanning and OCR process) in their articles. We will not reply to email addressed to dead authors, and therefore any email addressed to these authors will be ignored. Those looking for modern critiques of theism should go to the Modern Documents section of the Secular Web Library.Īll of the Historical Library authors are dead-and in many cases have been so for several decades.
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