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“Now,” said Cosmas, “if the world is round, how could the people on the other side see the Lord when he comes?”
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Any man who believes that such hideous laws were made by an infinitely wise and benevolent God is, in my judgment, insane or totally depraved.
My Reviewers Reviewed (1877)
How is it possible for men of ordinary intellect, not only to endorse such ignorant falsehoods, but to malign those who do not?
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If you say six periods, instead of six days, what becomes of your Sabbath?
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It is a waste of money to pay priests to frighten our children, and paralyze the intellect of women.
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The Protestants have persecuted exactly to the extent of their power. The Catholics have done the same.
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Is it the result of impotent rage? Is it because there is being written upon every orthodox brain a certificate of intellectual inferiority?
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If this “sacred” book teaches man to enslave his brother, it is not inspired. A god who would establish slavery is as cruel and heartless as any devil could be.
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There may have been sometime in the history of the world a worse religion than Old School Presbyterianism, but if there ever was, from cannibalism to civilization, I have never heard of it.
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The disciples of fear cannot touch me.
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I can say, if I wish, extremely mean and hateful things. I have read a great many religious papers and discussions and think that I now know all the infamous words in our language.
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In my judgment, they were right. To give up witchcraft is to give up, in a great degree at least, the supernatural. To throw away the little ghosts simply prepares the mind of man to give up the great ones.
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A few years ago they would have burned me at the stake and I should have been compelled to look upon their hypocritical faces through flame and smoke. They cannot do it now or they would.
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This is barbarism, no matter whether it came from heaven or from hell, from a God or from a devil, from the golden streets of the New Jerusalem or from the very Sodom of perdition. It is barbarism complete and utter.
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If these words had proceeded from the mouth of a demon, if they had been spoken by some enraged and infinitely malicious fiend, I should not have been surprised. But these things are attributed to a God of infinite mercy.
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Is that the idea we now have of love? If I have a child, no matter how deformed that child may be, and if it dies, nobody can make the loss to me good by bringing a more beautiful child. I want the one I loved and the one I lost.
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Every superstition in the world that is now held sacred has been made so by mothers, by fathers, by the recollections of home. I know what it has cost the noble, the brave, the tender, to throw away every superstition, although sanctified by the memory of those they loved.
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