Heretics and Heresies
- ISBN-10
- 1506130844
- ISBN-13
- 9781506130842
- Pages
- 28
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-10-14
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Author
- Rober Green Ingersoll
Description
"[...]God had commanded"? Search the records of the whole world, find out the history of every barbarous tribe, and you cart find no crime that touched a lower depth of infamy than those the bible's God commanded and approved. For such a God I have no words to express my loathing and contempt, and all the words in all the languages of man would scarcely be sufficient. Away with such a God! Give me Jupiter rather, with Io and Europa, or even Siva with his skulls and snakes. Tenth. With having repudiated the doctrine of "total depravity." What a precious doctrine is that of the total depravity of the human heart! How sweet it is to believe that the lives of all the good and great were continual sins and perpetual crimes; that the love a mother bears her child is, in the sight of God, a sin; that the gratitude of the natural heart[...]".
