The Infidels Text Book Being The Substance Of Thirteen Lectures Of The Bible

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230446387
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book The Infidel's Text-Book; Being the Substance of Thirteen Lectures on the Bible written by Anonymous and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE TENTH. THE MORALITY OF THE BIBLE. Friends, --This evening we shall discuss the morality of the Bible. Believers in this book are remarkably fond of exhibiting its excellencies in this respect. When driven from every other position, they generally take refuge behind what they term the divine " morals" of the "Word of God." However discomfitted they may have been upon other questions connected with the divinity of the scriptures, on resorting to this " stronghold," their courage is revived, and, like the omnipotent Deity after resting on the seventh day, they return to the encounter quite "refreshed." I must say, it is somewhat astonishing, such bravado and exultation should be exhibited upon a point, in which I conceive, the scriptures are more vulnerable than any other. I cannot account for such a paradox, except that the Christian world, knowing their weakness upon this head, are desirous to supply the deficiency, by assumption and dogmatism. Things generally make the greatest noise when they are most empty. My friends, if there is one thing connected with this controversy clearer than another, it is that the bible is an immoral publication. I will allow, before I proceed, that there are a/w redeeming qualities--a sprinkling of good passages (and in what book is there not something good), but these passages are so rare, that "like angels visits," they are "few and far between." But, even the unexceptionable parts, limited though they be, are by no means original. Most of them are merely borrowed from other productions, as it is incontestiblc that moral precepts, equally admirable, were taught by the sages of Greece, the philosophers of Rome, the Brahmins of India, and the Reformer of China, long anterior to the introduction...