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... Worship of Ancestors — Blindness Necessary to Keeping the Narrow Path — The Bible the Chain that Binds — A Bible of the Middle Ages and the Awe it Inspired — V . The Pentateuch — Moses Not the Author — Belief out of which Grew Religious ...
... Worship of Ancestors — Blindness Necessary to Keeping the Narrow Path — The Bible the Chain that Binds — A Bible of the Middle Ages and the Awe it Inspired — V . The Pentateuch — Moses Not the Author — Belief out of which Grew Religious ...
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... worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds . That which has happened in most countries has happened in ours . When a religion is founded , the educated , the powerful — that is to say , the priests and nobles , tell the ignorant ...
... worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds . That which has happened in most countries has happened in ours . When a religion is founded , the educated , the powerful — that is to say , the priests and nobles , tell the ignorant ...
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... worship God , are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe , and lovingly built the dun- geons of the Inquisition . All laws defining and punishing blasphemy — making it a crime to give your honest ideas about ...
... worship God , are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe , and lovingly built the dun- geons of the Inquisition . All laws defining and punishing blasphemy — making it a crime to give your honest ideas about ...
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... worship of ancestors . If our parents had been satisfied with the religion of theirs , we would be still less advanced than we are . If we are , in any way , bound by the belief of our fathers , the doctrine will hold good back to the ...
... worship of ancestors . If our parents had been satisfied with the religion of theirs , we would be still less advanced than we are . If we are , in any way , bound by the belief of our fathers , the doctrine will hold good back to the ...
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... worship . Certainly all can- not be right ; and as it would require a life time to investigate the claims of these various systems , it is hardly fair to damn a man forever , simply because he happens to believe the wrong one . All ...
... worship . Certainly all can- not be right ; and as it would require a life time to investigate the claims of these various systems , it is hardly fair to damn a man forever , simply because he happens to believe the wrong one . All ...
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Page 182 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 111 - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Page 326 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 63 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 64 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 257 - ... If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 303 - And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Page 109 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 146 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.