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38095	Ingersoll, Robert Green	Heretics And Heresies From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'			.txt	text/plain	8870	456	73	The Church persecutes the living and her God It is claimed that God wrote a book called the Bible, and it is Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy Why should the Church pity a man whom her God hates? should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn Every church pretends that it has a revelation from God, and that this It was claimed that God had founded the Church, and that to deny the authority of the Church was to be a traitor to God, and such is the history of the Church of God. I do not say, and I do not believe, that Christians are as bad as their heretics and infidels, the Church perpetrated all these crimes. Men and women have been burned for thinking there is but one God; that John Calvin, the founder of the Presbyterian Church.	./cache/38095.txt	./txt/38095.txt