Ancient Faiths and Modern: A Dissertation Upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist |
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Page xi
... priests . That Jehovah selected about one million of bad men , out of about four hundred other millions equally bad , solely because their progenitor , Abraham , consented to murder and burn his son , is to me a frightful blasphemy ...
... priests . That Jehovah selected about one million of bad men , out of about four hundred other millions equally bad , solely because their progenitor , Abraham , consented to murder and burn his son , is to me a frightful blasphemy ...
Page xiv
... priests are strenuously endeavouring to quench the light of reason in the fogs of faith . Unless the Protestantism , of which Great Britain was once so proud , decides to drift into Papism - the only legitimate harbour for those who ...
... priests are strenuously endeavouring to quench the light of reason in the fogs of faith . Unless the Protestantism , of which Great Britain was once so proud , decides to drift into Papism - the only legitimate harbour for those who ...
Page xv
... . A paternal govern- ment . Peruvian religion . Difference between political institutions and priest- craft . Peruvian sun god . An invisible God recognised . Priests . Eternal life . PAGE 1 PAGE Heaven and Hell . Temple of the sun.
... . A paternal govern- ment . Peruvian religion . Difference between political institutions and priest- craft . Peruvian sun god . An invisible God recognised . Priests . Eternal life . PAGE 1 PAGE Heaven and Hell . Temple of the sun.
Page xvi
... priests . Festivals . Cannibalism not permitted . Fire made from rays of sun and concave mirror , or by friction ... priesthood . The Aryans Monotheists . An Aryan hymn . Max Müller and Talboys Wheeler . Aryan conceptions compared with ...
... priests . Festivals . Cannibalism not permitted . Fire made from rays of sun and concave mirror , or by friction ... priesthood . The Aryans Monotheists . An Aryan hymn . Max Müller and Talboys Wheeler . Aryan conceptions compared with ...
Page xix
... priests - end in view . Submission to priests more valuable than virtue . Vice better than Scepticism . Theological false witness . Compulsory faith . Supply without demand - in theology . Correctness of doctrine proved by the sword ...
... priests - end in view . Submission to priests more valuable than virtue . Vice better than Scepticism . Theological false witness . Compulsory faith . Supply without demand - in theology . Correctness of doctrine proved by the sword ...
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