God Disapproves of, and has no Pleasure in. Burnt Offerings, Sacrifices, and...
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. (Jer. 7: 22) Your burnt offerings are not...
View ArticleWounding susceptibilities!
As if any reform was ever instituted or abuse swept away without wounding some ignorant or bigoted person’s susceptibilities! — Prof. Edward Clodd
View ArticleAssassination
A case involving the criminal dock with regard to the laity, but privileged with regard to the clergy. In some countries, the latter enjoys the right of thieving and assassination in utter defiance of...
View ArticleGod Forbids Human Sacrifice
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them [the Gentile nations;] . . . for every abomination to the Lord which he hateth have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and...
View ArticleTruth endureth
As for truth, it endureth and is always strong; it liveth and conquereth forever more. — Esdras
View ArticleAsses
Long-eared animals, patient and humble, and the true models to be imitated by all good Christians, who, like them, must allow themselves to be saddled with their burdens and carry their cross. Jesus...
View ArticleGod Commands and Accepts Human Sacrifices
No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and of beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy...
View ArticleTruth of our opinions
If we would be sure of the truth of our opinions, we should make them public. — Helvetius
View ArticleAtheist
A name given by theologians to whoever differs from them in their ideas concerning the divinity, or who refuses to believe in it in the form in which, in the emptiness of their infallible pates, they...
View ArticleGod Tempts No Man
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. (James 1: 13)
View ArticleSkeptics in religion
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in...
View ArticleAttributes (Divine)
Incomprehensible qualities which, by dint of reflecting on, our theologians have decided can only belong to a being of whom they have not the least idea. These qualities seem incompatible to persons of...
View ArticleGod Does Tempt Men
And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham. (Gen. 22: 1) And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say. Go number Israel and...
View ArticleAugurs
How our modern augurs must enjoy themselves when, glass in hand, they devise among them of the folly of all who are not, as they are, members of the college of augurs!
View ArticleGod Cannot Lie
God is not a man, that he should lie. (Num. 23: 19) It was impossible for God to lie. (Heb. 6: 18)
View ArticleAusterity
An ingenious means invented by perfected Christians of rendering themselves agreeable in the sight of a God of infinite goodness by torturing themselves with fastings, flagellations, etc. God is, of...
View ArticleGod Lies; He Sends Forth Lying Spirits to Deceive
Ah, Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived these people. (Jer. 4: 10) Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar? (Jer. 14: 18) For this cause, God shall send them strong delusion, that they should...
View ArticleAuthority (Ecclesiastical)
A faculty enjoyed by God’s ministers to convince as of the wisdom of their decisions, of the authenticity of their rights, and the soundness of their opinions by the help of prisons, soldiers, stakes,...
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