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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 52 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 783 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 75 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 43 God 37 man 28 Bible 22 Mr. 21 Church 21 Christianity 20 New 20 Lord 20 Jesus 20 Christ 19 Jews 18 Testament 18 England 16 christian 16 Moses 16 John 13 world 13 Old 9 religion 9 great 9 good 9 States 9 Ingersoll 9 Dr. 9 Christians 8 Jehovah 8 Egypt 8 Adam 7 scripture 7 York 7 United 7 Paul 7 Paine 7 Holy 7 France 7 Devil 6 right 6 nature 6 child 6 Israel 6 David 5 Voltaire 5 Thomas 5 Sunday 5 Luke 5 Hebrews 5 Government 5 General 5 Father 5 Catholic Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3039 most 184 least 134 well 7 goethe 3 long 2 truest 2 mind-- 2 highest 2 greatest 2 few;--the 1 worst 1 soon 1 shortest 1 manifest 1 logwood 1 lest 1 latest 1 hard 1 first_--that 1 farthest 1 coolest 1 clearest 1 babe,--wickedness Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.physics.wisc.edu 1 www.erols.com Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 2 http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~shalizi/Spinoza/TIE/ 1 http://www.erols.com/jyselman/teielwes.htm Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76 nothing is more 61 god did not 60 man is not 58 bible is not 55 god is not 40 bible is true 33 man does not 33 men are not 29 god does not 26 people do not 25 people are not 25 world is not 23 religion is not 21 _ is _ 21 bible does not 20 man was not 20 nothing is so 19 man has ever 17 church has always 17 god made man 17 world has ever 16 men do not 16 religion be true 16 things are not 15 god told moses 15 god was not 15 religion is simply 14 god is good 14 women are not 13 bible was not 13 book is not 13 life is not 13 man did not 13 men did not 13 people were not 13 things being equal 12 country is not 12 god is infinite 12 god is infinitely 12 man has not 12 man is totally 11 _ was _ 11 books were not 11 god has not 11 man is responsible 11 men were not 11 people have always 11 religion does not 11 things do not 10 _ did _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 world are not sufficient 6 bible is not true 6 god has no time 5 book is not true 5 man has no property 5 man is not necessarily 5 man is not only 4 god is no respecter 4 god is not responsible 4 god was not willing 4 man has not only 4 man is not immortal 4 men were not only 4 things are not true 4 women are not virtuous 3 god has not plainly 3 god is not good 3 life knew no leisure 3 man has no ideas 3 man is not happy 3 man sees no absurdity 3 people are not satisfied 3 people had no doubt 3 right did not always 3 things are not right 3 time is not far 3 world is not yet 2 bible has not civilized 2 bible is no exception 2 bible is no longer 2 bible is not free 2 bible leaves no doubt 2 book was not there 2 books is not only 2 church has no creed 2 church has no occasion 2 church has no right 2 church is not willing 2 country are not drunkards 2 country are not far 2 country is not old 2 country is not overpopulated 2 country is not prosperous 2 country were not trustworthy 2 day has no foundation 2 day has no thought 2 day has not time 2 death is not so 2 facts have no relatives 2 god are not always A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 30206 author = Bradlaugh, Charles title = Humanity''s Gain from Unbelief Reprinted from the "North American Review" of March, 1889 date = keywords = Christianity; Church; England; Old; christian summary = Christianity--like the rejection of the faiths which preceded it--has in directed by the Established Christian Church against Papists and Church of England Christians in New England, escaping from the persecution of Old World Christians, accepted as God''s revelation to man, Christianity has no higher claim Old and New Testaments are forced on the people as part of Christianity; progress and civilisation of the world are due to Christianity; and of slavery, and this because men professing Christianity were What of the effect of Christianity on these powers in the centuries ninth century week Christians sold slaves to the Saracens. In this the Church of England Christians in Demerara were and seventeenth centuries to persecutions by Christians of innocent men, any to which the Christians of the first three centuries were subjected Christian churches, which Acts have only been repealed in consequence of Why, one who does not believe in the Christian religion. id = 36268 author = Bradlaugh, Charles title = Heresy: Its Utility And Morality. A Plea And A Justification date = keywords = Atheism; Bacon; Berkeley; Butler; Church; Descartes; England; France; God; Locke; Luther; Rome; Spinoza; man summary = of heresy between him and the heretic who rejects all churches. ordinary orthodox man is a heretic to every religion in the world except says: "Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, of the existence of God and the nature of the soul, were the chief existence of God and the immortality of the soul, Descartes needed point in his philosophy, than an energetic protest of the human mind idea of God; that a man can be at the same time an Atheist and an honest In this century the English Church lost much of the political power it actually exist." The "Principles of Human Knowledge" is the work in ideas are not in addition to man''s mind; but the aggregate of sensative his argument for a future state of existence, not only to man, but to thought in Europe during the last century than to any other man. id = 36269 author = Bradlaugh, Charles title = A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays date = keywords = Abraham; Adam; David; Deity; Devil; Dr.; Egypt; England; Esau; Gillespie; God; Heaven; Isaac; Jacob; Jesus; Jews; John; Jonah; Lord; Luke; Matthew; Moses; Mr.; Peter; Satan; Saul; Theist; man summary = walked in his ways to do only that which was right in the sight of God. The Philistines rejected the traitor''s aid, and saved David from the this is the family of the man "who walked in God''s ways all the days of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." It is true, Abraham owned slaves, was not God never did tempt any man at any time, but he "did tempt Abraham" to Christian body affirm that Jesus was God incarnate on earth, the It was Simon Peter who, having told Jesus he was the Son of God, was the words "thou shalt surely die" were spoken by God to man. exists independently; but it can not be caused by God, as in that case others: that man can do no good of himself or without God''s aid, but yet that each man has a free will; that God is all-powerful, but that few id = 10684 author = Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell) title = A History of Freedom of Thought date = keywords = Bible; Catholics; Christianity; Church; England; English; Europe; France; Germany; God; Inquisition; Pope; Roman; State; Testament; christian; history; reason; religion summary = how, when public opinion was formed by the views of such men, thought thinking, to train reason to look upon the universe in new ways and to [51] of freedom of thought, religious liberty, toleration, had not been Christians had claimed toleration on the ground that religious belief is the Church introduced into the public law of Europe the new principle to reconcile the old religion with new ideas; but the general tendency religion, and the author surveys the history of Christianity to show the a relatively tolerant spirit prevailed among the Christian sects and new In the German States the history of religious liberty differs in many on the question whether the Deity of natural religion �the God whose there are more gods than one, or shall deny the Christian religion to be the publication of an anti-Christian work, The Age of Reason (1794 and id = 36882 author = Cohen, Chapman title = A Grammar of Freethought date = keywords = Christianity; Church; Freethinker; Freethought; God; Mr.; Schiller; Sir; State; belief; chapter; christian; fact; human; life; man; nature; religion; religious; social; world summary = One of the largest facts in the history of man is religion. This outgrowing of religion is no new thing in human history. marks of social life--the houses in which man lives, the machines he physical aspect of life, and represent the determining forces of social member of a social group man is dominated by his ideas of things, and the general body of the social forces the question of religious the idea of God, shows that so soon as man discovers the natural causes other things equal, one man without religion is greater evidential value that human nature can get on with religion, but the one case proves that relation to this life human nature would be without meaning or value. of self-sacrifice, but because man being an expression of social life is How little the Christian religion appreciates the nature of morality is id = 22955 author = Floyd, William title = The Mistakes of Jesus date = keywords = Father; God; Jesus; John; Luke; Mark; Matt; Son; man summary = and the date of his birth has been placed anywhere from 4 B.C. to 7 A.D. Matthew says that Jesus was born "in the days of Herod", while Luke says thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith Jesus stressed his mission to save the world, saying "For God so loved have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?"[39] "Let us alone, Jesus occasionally eulogized marriage: "For this cause shall a man leave Again Jesus said: "Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also If Jesus was not God, but merely the ideal man, his estimate of himself But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead Jesus had said that God would always answer prayers in his name. Whether Jesus was God, or man, or myth, he can be judged by his works, id = 30202 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Flowers of Freethought (First Series) date = keywords = Archbishop; Atheist; Bible; Christ; Christianity; Church; Devil; Dr.; England; God; Gosse; Heaven; Holy; Huxley; Jesus; Jews; Lord; Luther; Mr.; New; Paul; Providence; Shelley; Spurgeon; christian; faith; great; man; religion summary = and strong necessity, the lord of gods and men, brings them to be employed like the old garden-god to frighten away the crows. Wherever the priests retain their old power over the people''s minds they this article should fall under the eyes of a Christian man of God, we We tell the men of God, of every denomination, that they are Devil "God" and "Christ" appear in it like of Man was to come through the clouds with great power and glory, and few weeks before his death, Shelley wrote of Christianity that "no man of great Christian cities, where new churches are constantly built for the century, to pass an Act allowing Christians to obey Jesus Christ. As a man Jesus died because he had not the sense to live. Now let any man or any Christian seriously ask himself The gods are like men; they are reared, and they die, id = 30203 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) date = keywords = Atheist; Bacon; Bert; Besant; Bible; Bradlaugh; Brooke; Bruno; Charles; Christ; Christianity; Church; Edwin; England; Gallienne; God; Henson; Hughes; Jesus; Jews; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Paul; Professor; Sabbath; Sir; Slavery; Stokes; Testament; Watkinson; christian; man summary = "Well," he says, "the great evidence which we as Christians accept is, Christian world by appointing his atheistic friend Paul Bert as Minister God and his priests, but his corpse was a very good Christian, and it his mouth, making the great, virile Atheist talk like a little, flabby real truth and goodness there is in the world began with the Christian solidarity of mankind was "revealed to the human race through St. Paul"--which is a great slur upon Jesus Christ, and quite inconsistent Probably Mr. Watkinson, like most good Christians who go present time Christianity is steadily working against slavery all over "Slavery is cruel," says Mr. Henson, while "Christianity teaches men Like a true Christian and courtier, Sir Edwin Arnold dedicates his book With regard to man--the _entire_ human being, mortal and immortal--Mrs. Besant remarks that "un-instructed Christians" chop him into two, the id = 30204 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Arrows of Freethought date = keywords = Archbishop; Atheism; Bible; Bishop; Blackie; Booth; Brown; Christ; Christianity; Church; Devil; God; Holy; Jesus; Joshua; Mr.; Paine; Professor; Sunday; christian; man summary = cheereth the heart of God and man;" and he knows that his master, Jesus we shall believe that the author of "Common Sense," the "Rights of Man," the idea of a personal god, likens the Christian Trinity to three Lord progress we have made towards that time when the mind of man shall play if you cannot deduce God from the animate world, you are not likely He was no god of power, but a weak fallible man like ourselves; Man''s place in nature is, indeed, a great question, and it can be of man''s ever knowing whether there is a God or not? Nature drives on to no God and no good; he simply says he knows not to ascribe all the good in the world to God, and all the evil to man, or that the man who said _in his heart_ only "There is no God," without id = 30205 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh date = keywords = Bradlaugh; Charles; Hall; House; London; Mr.; Northampton; Science; man summary = that time I went to hear Mr. Bradlaugh whenever I had an opportunity. Only a day or two after the lad''s death Mr. Bradlaugh had to lecture at the Hall. that Mr. Bradlaugh walked through the hall and mounted the platform with he felt afraid of a man like Mr. Bradlaugh. While Mr. Bradlaugh was lecturing in the States a general election took Again I saw what a hold Mr. Bradlaugh had on his Northampton followers. I believe in the Circus; and I saw Mr. Bradlaugh, for the first time, He came down to the Hall of Science with Mr. Bradlaugh, in whose employment he then was, and I gave him the article I But I naturally looked at it in a different light Mr. Bradlaugh was He lived like the old Bradlaugh, and he went under. The last time I saw Mr. Bradlaugh in public was on Wednesday evening, id = 30209 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Bible Romances, First Series date = keywords = Abel; Abraham; Adam; Balaam; Bible; Cain; Devil; Eden; Egypt; Eve; God; Israel; Jehovah; Jews; Jonah; Lord; Lot; Moses; Noah; Pharaoh summary = infallible Word of God. The Creation Story, with which the Book of Genesis opens, is incoherent, We read that the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, the told that the sons of God took unto them wives of the daughters of men And after the "fall" the Lord God said, "Behold, the man is become as upon the serpent "And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou Moses, "and you shall know that there is none like unto the Lord our sinned this time," he said, "the Lord is righteous, and I and my people We leave the Jews with their Lord God on the safe side of the Red Sea, the word of the Lord came unto Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, The word of the Lord came unto Jonah a second time, and presuming no But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God id = 30210 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Comic Bible Sketches, Reprinted from "The Freethinker" date = keywords = Bible; Comic; Freethinker summary = COMIC BIBLE SKETCHES that it would some day boast its Comic Bible. nine and three months'' imprisonment like common felons, all for the Amours de la Bible." But many others were free from this objection, and prophesied a speedy exhaustion of Bible topics, but they did not know The following Comic Bible Sketches, which will be succeeded in due in the Freethinker before its editor, proprietor and publisher were The French Comic Bible prints under each illustration a few crisp lines happened in some way, as to which the Divine Word is silent; this is our Ridicule is a most potent form of common-sense logic. Christians read the Bible without realising its wonders, allowing Let it be observed that these Comic Bible Sketches ridicule nothing but that to laugh at the absurdities of the Bible was to insult the human In like manner we publish our Comic Bible Sketches, and id = 30207 author = Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) title = Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures date = keywords = America; Appendix; Bible; Christianity; Church; England; God; Lord; Moses; Pagan; Paul; St.; christian; good; great; man; religion; right; time; woman summary = The men who declare that woman is the intellectual inferior of man, do Women have for a long time been asking for the right to an education, To this God of the Bible a woman may not go unless her father or husband teach as the word and will of God for women, it ought to be fit to read of God; murderers of men; butchers of children; debauchers of women; is the men who invented religion, and the women who believed in it. I believe that a Church has no right to teach what it does not know. more necessary than love for God. I believe that men, women, and children need our best thoughts, our I want men and women to be good and true because it is right towards on this earth long before man could have lived, they said that God id = 43550 author = Graves, Lydia M. title = The Bible of Bibles; Or, Twenty-Seven "Divine" Revelations date = keywords = Abraham; Adam; Bible; Book; CHAPTER; Christ; Christianity; Church; David; Egypt; Father; Gen.; God; Gods; Hindoo; Holy; India; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Luke; Matt; Moses; Mr.; New; Old; Paul; Sam; Testament; christian; jewish; king; man; moral summary = TWO THOUSAND BIBLICAL ERRORS IN SCIENCE, HISTORY, MORALS, RELIGION, AND those morally defective books called Bibles in the hands of the ignorant of cases cited in this work prove that the Christian Bible may be ranked pleasing to God and useful to man." A text in this sacred book reads, Bible, and the revelation inscribed on man''s moral nature, and soul-saving revelation of God. Jesus refers to this natural Bible, or revelation, again when he say''s, The Bible tells us "the Lord God formed man of the dust of the The Bible teaches that "God made man in his own image." The reverse called the man of God to account for his moral defects (Gen. xx.). plant in his mind a very low standard of the moral perfections of God. We are told (Gen. xix. 1. God formed and fashioned man, according to the Bible, after his own With the characteristic moral teaching of the Christian Bible, presented id = 14120 author = Hammon, William title = Answer to Dr. Priestley''s Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever date = keywords = Deity; Dr.; God; Priestley; argument; letter; man summary = Natural or Moral proof of his existence and of those attributes. That religion or belief of a Deity cannot bear the force of argument is is meant a belief in the existence of a Deity from natural and exist without a Deity, you, Dr. Priestley, allow to be no impossibility. "By reason we can discover the necessary existence of a Deity, the idea of a Deity, if we do not exclude an existent universe. for the good of man to be made happy now, and that the Deity can be do so, the argument of the Deity''s existence is independent of such than a belief in God; for the moral purpose in believing a Deity (an on the subject; that is, how God could exist without a prior cause. He must however allow, if reason proves a Deity respecting Natural religion and the proof of the existence of a God id = 40770 author = Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'' title = Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion date = keywords = Bible; Christianity; Christians; God; Hebrews; Jesus; Jews; Moses; man; mankind; priest; reason; religion; render summary = If the manners of nations have gained nothing by the Christian religion, OR THE IDEAS OF GOD, AND HIS CONDUCT, GIVEN US BY THE CHRISTIAN inspired by the same God. Thus, all religions pretend to a divine Thus, we are commanded by Christianity to believe that a God having his destructive temptations, rather than the absolute commands of God. This Satan, the cause of so much terror to Christians, was evidently Christians endeavour to prove the divine origin of their religion by the sanction of God. In my opinion, however, the Christian religion, which tramples on every moral duty in obedience to its God. In a word, the religion, which boasts of having brought peace on earth, divines who pretend that, without the Christian religion there could The love, therefore, of a Christian to his God can Christian love beings who continually offend his God? id = 36800 author = Holyoake, Austin title = Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester date = keywords = God; Jesus; Lord; Peter; Son; man summary = heavens opened to Jesus, and the Spirit of God descended like a dove and give his angels charge concerning thee." Jesus said unto him, "It is of another, Jesus said, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. We are told that when "Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave But Jesus said unto him, When Jesus entered the ruler''s house, he said, "Give place, enthusiastic Peter said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on Jesus said, Come; to which Peter responded by stepping out of Jesus blessed Peter, and promised him the keys of the kingdom of heaven; Peter rebuked him, and said it should not be; but Jesus Christ, the Son of God." Jesus at last replied--"Thou hast said," which And as they went, whom should they meet but Jesus himself, who said id = 20447 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews date = keywords = Answer; Beecher; Bible; Blaine; Catholic; Chicago; Christianity; Christians; Church; Cleveland; Colonel; Congress; Dr.; England; General; God; Government; Ingersoll; Mr.; New; North; Old; President; Question; Shakespeare; South; States; Sunday; Testament; United; York; american; democratic; man; republican summary = time when every man, woman and child will enjoy every human right. In that State I think General Gresham is the coming man. I have no objection to people believing in any good thing--no Most people find great pleasure in thinking about and in believing good Christians--honest and noble people, but in my judgment, Mr. Beecher is the greatest man in the world who now occupies a pulpit. People who believe his way will probably think that he has for this world, and I hope the time will come when a civilized man But the great thing for the laboring man in the United States is --it wants free men; and a great many people in the Republican man is not happy so long as he knows that other good men and women The great thing is for the people to know the facts. id = 30208 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Ghosts, and Other Lectures date = keywords = God; Illinois; States; United; child; day; good; great; liberty; like; love; man; people; right; time; world; year summary = For thousands of years it was believed that ghosts, good and bad, Take from the mind of man the idea of the supernatural, and religion The idea of right and wrong is born of man''s capacity to enjoy and Men found that the real was the useful; that what a man knows is better The free man, working for wife and child, gets his head and hands in equal of man; that men existed before books; that religion is one of the Our fathers in the good old times--and the best thing I can say about This world has not been fit for a man to live in fifty years. world has never produced a man or woman of great genius. They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, that in America every man should have a right to life, liberty, and the id = 38095 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Heretics And Heresies From ''The Gods and Other Lectures'' date = keywords = Calvin; Christ; Church; God; Presbyterian; man summary = 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. id = 38096 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Humboldt From ''The Gods and Other Lectures'' date = keywords = great; law; man; world summary = great idea that the universe is governed by law, took possession of laws governing the world; to do away with that splendid delusion called the world is governed by law, and that there really exists a connection philosophical history of man; of Kotzebue, who lived in the world of of presenting to the world a picture of Nature, in order that men might, great demonstrator of the sublime truth, that the universe is governed world; faith put out the eyes of the soul; the reason was a trembling the laws of nature, and that wisdom is the science of happiness. law, it was only natural to conclude that our little world was also we say that the universe is governed by law, we mean that this fact, For these reasons he is honored throughout the world. world--with every science known to man, and with every star glittering id = 38098 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Individuality From ''The Gods and Other Lectures'' date = keywords = Church; God; man; right; world summary = the Church had had absolute control of the human mind at any time, would they are ordained of God;" suppose the Church could control the world the revenge of man is the justice of God; that mercy is not the same reason was denounced as a scorner and hater of God and his holy Church. who conscientiously believes in religious liberty, worship a God who for denying the existence of God. According to these, religious people, truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but greatness of God, and the littleness of the people. a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man others, for a human government, and for a Constitution in which no God They knew that to put God in the Constitution was to put man out. keeping, or in the keeping of her God, the sacred rights of man. id = 38099 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Mistakes of Moses date = keywords = Aaron; Adam; Egypt; Egyptians; Eve; God; Hebrews; Israel; Jews; Lord; Moses; Noah; Pentateuch; Pharaoh; day; man summary = the good all their evil; that in this world God punishes the people he All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same It is not easy to account for an infinite God making people so low in account is true, we must believe that God, existing in infinite space The man who wrote that absurd account must have believed that God lived Moses says that God said on the third day, "Let the earth bring forth fourth day God said, "Let there be light in the firmament of the heaven We are then told that on the next day "God said, Let the waters bring On this, the last day of creation, God said:--"Let the earth bring forth "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden believe the bible to be the inspired word of God. Let me show you the result of unbelief. id = 38107 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Gods From ''The Gods and Other Lectures'' date = keywords = God; cause; devil; force; man; nature; people; power; world summary = of war, because the bible is the word of God. As a matter of fact, there be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. become as gods, knowing good and evil." For this reason, religion Man, in his# ignorance, supposed that all phenomena were produced by to conceive of a god utterly unlike himself, and he naturally supposed supposed influence with the gods, made of his fellow-man a cringing This belief in good and evil powers had its origin in the fact that man nations, the gods still interfere; but in prize fights, the best man of interference by the gods in this age of the world, still thinks, of cause and effect, proves the existence of a power superior to nature. Of what use have the gods been to man? Would an infinitely wise, good and powerful God, intending to produce id = 38801 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 01 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date = keywords = Bible; Calvin; Christ; Christians; England; Father; God; Holy; Illinois; Jesus; John; Lord; Mark; Matthew; New; Paine; Son; Testament; child; church; good; great; man; nature; reason; world summary = and ignorance, called "faith." What man, who ever thinks, can believe become as gods, knowing good and evil." For this reason, religion This belief in good and evil powers had its origin in the fact that man do believe that it is better to love men than to fear gods; that it is as the enemy of man and God. In all ages reason has been regarded as the God will forever reward the true believer, and eternally damn the man they are ordained of God;" suppose the church could control the world Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates? believe there is any god in the universe who will damn a man simply for believe that God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn the Humanity is the grand religion, and no God can put a man in hell in id = 38802 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 02 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date = keywords = Aaron; Adam; Bible; Christ; Eden; Egypt; Egyptians; Eve; God; Hebrews; Israel; Jehovah; Jews; Lord; Moses; New; Noah; Old; Pharaoh; Testament; christian; man; world summary = the good all their evil; that in this world God punishes the people he All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same account is true, we must believe that God, existing in infinite space The man who wrote that absurd account must have believed that God lived Moses says that God said on the third day, "Let the earth bring forth fourth day God said, "Let there be light in the firmament of the heaven "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God. Let me show you the result of unbelief. If the Bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men poor man in his cause;" that God never told a people not to live in "_We believe that man was made in the image of God, that he might know, id = 38803 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 03 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date = keywords = Bacon; Bible; Burns; Catholic; Christ; Christians; David; Devil; England; France; God; Jehovah; John; Lincoln; North; Old; Paine; Scotland; Shakespeare; South; St.; Testament; Voltaire; Whitman; death; good; great; life; love; man; world summary = Scotland, New England--In the Dark Ages--Let us Live for Man--X. The poet lives in the world of thought and feeling, and to this the shell lives a poem, and all the great men of the world, and all the This man believed in human love, in making a heaven here, At this time Voltaire was not interested in the great world--knew very in this infamy has ever been touched by the wrathful hand of God. Now and then a man of genius, of sense, of intellectual honesty, has The men of thought now know that all religions and all sacred books have The intelligent man now knows that we live in a natural world, that gods Intelligent men now know, that if there be an infinite God, man cannot Living for God has filled the world with blood God to the brain and heart of man--millions who regard this book as a id = 38804 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 04 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date = keywords = Bible; Christ; Christianity; Christians; Devil; England; Ghost; God; Holy; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; Joseph; Lord; New; Old; Satan; Testament; believe; child; good; great; man; nature; world summary = A man who loved this world, this life, the things of god who fought the darkness, the power of evil, the enemy of man. an infinitely good, wise and powerful God. The theologian says that what we call evil is for our benefit--that we done some good--not because they believed in gods and devils--but in But to-day no intelligent man believes in the existence of devils--no the good, man placed a god; back of the evil, a devil; back of health, The truth is that good and evil spirits--gods and devils--are beyond the But we do know how gods and devils, heavens and hells, have been made. the Devil, of Satan, of the Serpent, of the enemy of God and man, the It may be asked how I know that the Devil knew that Christ was God. My Again, I say that no sensible man in all the world believes in devils. id = 38805 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 05 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions date = keywords = Adam; Answer; Bible; Christ; Christianity; David; God; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; John; Jonah; Lord; Mary; Moses; Mr.; New; Old; Paine; Question; Talmage; Testament; Thomas; christian; man; scripture summary = of Immoral Books--"Assassinating" God--Mr. Talmage finds Nearly All the Invention of Modern Man''s Life?--Satisfactory Reasons for Not Believing that the Bible is inspired. Mr. Talmage knows that it is not necessary to understand the Bible in order to believe it. Sunderland, of this city, in his sermon on the assassination of Garfield, takes the ground that God permitted the murder for the purpose of opening the eyes He believes that God damns a man for his own glory; God, in his infinite justice, damns a good man on his to the Bible, it took this infinite God six days to make Is it possible that the God of Mr. Talmage could not have made man a success? According to the Bible, his God made man knowing that in with one exception, believed the Bible to be the inspired word of God, the man who was the exception lived--a believer in God, and a friend of man. id = 38806 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 06 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions date = keywords = Abraham; Archdeacon; Bible; Black; Cardinal; Catholic; Christ; Christianity; Church; Divine; Egypt; Father; God; Holy; Ingersoll; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Mr.; Nature; New; Old; Paul; Reply; Rome; St.; Testament; christian; man; religion; scripture; world summary = If the Bible is inspired, Jehovah, God of all worlds, actually said: kill his wife because she suggested the worshiping of some other God. I also insist that the Old Testament would be a much better book with right-minded, sane man, except Mr. Black, who now believes that a God of believe in the wrong God. In order to know the difference between right reasonable to believe that a good God would assist his chosen people to According to your creed, man must believe in your God. All You believe that Christ was God, that he was infinite in power. It is far better for a man to love his fellow-men than to love God. It Is it in accordance with reason that an infinitely good and loving God natural man cannot know the things of the spirit of God, because they id = 38807 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions date = keywords = Answer; Bible; Catholic; Christ; Christianity; Christians; Church; Delaware; Dr.; God; Ingersoll; Jesus; Judge; Lord; Mr.; New; Old; Question; Rev.; Testament; Thomas; Voltaire; good; man; right; scripture summary = Whiskey--Eulogy of Tobacco--Human Stupidity that Defies the Gods--Rev. Charles Deems--Jesus a Believer in a Personal Devil--The Man Christ. World?--Would an Infinite God make People who Need a Redeemer?--Gospel I believe in Man, Woman and Child--the Blessed Trinity of Life and Joy. I have said, and still say, that you have no right to endeavor by force thought it necessary to hear what any man said in order to answer him. 4. "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread repetition of the old story: That God made the world and a man, and the church forgive a man whom it thinks its God is waiting somewhat show that all men have an equal right to think, and that a man is only God made a poor world; that he made man and woman and put them in the Orthodox Christians say that a man must believe on Christ, must have id = 38808 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews date = keywords = Answer; Beecher; Bible; Blaine; Catholic; Christianity; Christians; Church; Cleveland; Colonel; Congress; Constitution; Dr.; England; General; God; Government; Ingersoll; Mr.; New; North; Old; President; Question; Shakespeare; South; States; Sunday; Testament; United; York; american; democratic; man; republican summary = time when every man, woman and child will enjoy every human right. In that State I think General Gresham is the coming man. I have no objection to people believing in any good thing--no Most people find great pleasure in thinking about and in believing good Christians--honest and noble people, but in my judgment, Mr. Beecher is the greatest man in the world who now occupies a pulpit. People who believe his way will probably think that he has for this world, and I hope the time will come when a civilized man But the great thing for the laboring man in the United States is --it wants free men; and a great many people in the Republican man is not happy so long as he knows that other good men and women The great thing is for the people to know the facts. id = 38809 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political date = keywords = Col; Congress; Constitution; Garfield; General; Government; Illinois; Ingersoll; Mr.; New; North; President; South; Southern; States; Tilden; Union; United; York; american; country; democratic; man; nation; party; republican summary = The Republicans of the United States demand a man who knows that The Republicans of the United States want a man who knows that this Democratic party at the North, thousands of millions of money were For sixteen years the country has been in the hands of that great party. No man should be elected President of our great country Republican party of the United States made this a free country. President of the United States, the Democratic party said: "We will not this was a nation; when the Republican party said we shall be free; party to-day says if you want to sell your goods to the Southern people, Tell the old man that the Republican party preserved the The Democratic party then said the Federal Government had a right to Nation and the flag forever!" And let that party stand by the great men id = 38810 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal date = keywords = Bliss; Boone; Bosler; Brady; Court; Davis; Dorsey; General; Government; Ingersoll; John; Miner; Mr.; New; Peck; Rerdell; States; Stephen; Vaile summary = Contracts--Pay on Discontinued Routes--Alleged False Affidavits--Right of Davis--His Alleged Children--Date of his Death--Testimony of Mr. Knight--Ink used in Writing the Will--Expert Evidence--Speechlessness Dorsey, Peck, Miner, and Boone were bidders; that certain routes said is that Mr. Dorsey either called this man Miner or described him as Try this case according to the evidence; and if you know that every man, On page 1406, Mr. Moore says that he went to Dorsey and got the money, not Dorsey ask Rerdell at the time he made that affidavit, "Did you Rerdell made the affidavit of 1881, Dorsey would have said, "I want that time--that this man Rerdell swears that he had the original letter-press W. Dorsey and ten thousand dollars for Peck, because the evidence shows On page 2234 Rerdell swears that affidavits of Peck and Dorsey were On page 2470 Rerdell swears that he did not give the books to Dorsey in id = 38811 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany date = keywords = Amendment; Bible; Chinese; Christ; Christianity; Christians; Church; Congress; Constitution; Court; England; God; Government; Ingersoll; Jehovah; Jersey; Jews; John; Justice; Moses; Mr.; New; Old; Paine; Rights; States; Supreme; Testament; United; York; know; man; religion summary = the United States Supreme Court pronouncing the Civil Rights Act when acting contrary to Law?--The Word "State" must include the People Much like People of other Religions--Teaching given Christian Children States could not be trusted to protect the rights of the colored man; I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any church, of Can you imagine an infinitely good God sending a man to hell to deny the existence of your God. Was he a good man? man who says that a God of love commanded the commission of these crimes "_According to the Old Testament, the God of the Christian world I do not believe that a God made this world, filled it with people and intelligent people do not believe in the existence of God. What I did The Improved Man will believe only in the religion of this world. id = 38812 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany date = keywords = America; Bible; Briggs; Christian; Colonel; Constitution; England; General; God; Ingersoll; Lincoln; Mr.; Nature; New; Republic; Sabbath; Shakespeare; Spain; States; United; Wagner; York; friend; good; great; life; love; man; world summary = the equal rights of man, the best thing that can be done is to destroy a reputation of any man who dares defend the great and generous dead. natural for the young man to dream of success, of a home, of a good, a men or gods can say--the right or wrong lives in results--in the nature think a thousand times more of a kind man than I do of an intelligent God''s best gift to man, and but for the Bible we could not know right in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian--possibly I believe him to be an honest man; right in some things and wrong in The intelligent and generous man who loves his fellow-men--who develops Fortunate the people where this good man lived, for they are all his if above and over all there be a God who loves the right, an honest man id = 38813 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes date = keywords = Belief; Bible; Christ; Christianity; Church; God; Ingersoll; Law; Liberty; Life; Man; Men; Mr.; New; Old; People; Rev; Testament; World; religion; volume summary = new Nation Born�Paine the Best of Political Writers�The "Crisis"�War Fathers in the good old Time�The iron Arguments that Christians Books�The Claim that all Moral Laws came from God through Incarnation�Was Christ God?�The Trinity Expounded�"Let us pray"�V. Man''s Life?�Satisfactory Reasons for Not Believing that the Bible is inspired. THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL''S OPENING PAPER THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL''S OPENING PAPER Old and New Testaments�On the Assertion that the Spread of Christianity World before Christ''s Advent�Respect for the Man Christ�The Dark Glad to Know that the Bible is only the Work of Man and that the New God do Nothing for this World?�The Universe a Blunder if Christianity Col. Ingersoll''s First Letter in The New York World�Under what when acting contrary to Law?�The Word "State" must include the People Report of the Case from the New York Times (note)�The Right to express of the New Testament�The Bible "not true but inspired"�The "Higher id = 8140 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother''s Grave, Etc., Etc. date = keywords = Adam; Bible; Christ; Church; Egypt; England; Father; God; Heaven; Hell; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Matthew; Moses; Mr.; New; Testament; believe; child; christian; good; great; man; world summary = And the Lord God said, Behold the man has become as one of us, to know mother ate an apple contrary to the command of an arbitrary God. A very pious friend of mine, having heard that I had said the world was God created the world and imposed upon men certain laws, and then let time protested and said, of course, let the man think, if you call that the man came to believe that he could please God by having read a few joy." He didn''t believe that God so loved the world that He intended Do you believe that it is right--that God made one man to work for Do you believe in a God that allowed a man to be Do you believe in a God that allowed a man to be In this book I read about God''s making the world and one man. id = 8389 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest date = keywords = Calvin; Christ; France; God; Holy; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Mary; Mr.; New; Paine; States; Sunday; Thomas; United; Voltaire; York; child; christian; good; love; man; religion; right; think; world summary = of God, woman is the slave of man, and the sweet children are the wished to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. He said that Does any human being now believe that God made man of dust men wrote that it was right for a man to destroy the life of his wife In the old testament, when God got a man dead, He let take another man''s word and not what he thinks, but what God said to idea of going and telling a man a thing that if he does not believe he clothed the naked here; and God cannot send to eternal pain a man who No God has a right to create a man who is to be eternally damned. word of God. He was an honorable man, and told me to read the bible What man who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God? id = 30900 author = Lewis, Joseph title = The Tyranny of God date = keywords = God; Nature; child; death; life; live; man; pain; tyranny summary = present human species after the life and death of an illimitable number child the parents would not harm, Nature tortures and God kills! making him a Man. Disease is one of Nature''s cardinal forces. powerful than our minds, used to numb the pains of life, are so much in Human life is the cheapest thing that God makes! The mind, through fear of death, is capable of suffering, within a few feel pain as long as we possess "life." In a sense, therefore, death is After all, the severest pains of death lie in the brains of the living. We live our life by material means. that Nature forces him to live. living life in our former condition, after our efforts have brought us Death is always preferable to the living of a "dog''s life!" And yet, and chaotic forces of Nature, so as to make life and living a little id = 36271 author = Moss, Arthur B. title = Nature and the Gods From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures date = keywords = Jahveh; god; man; nature summary = Nature, from a thing wrought by the skill and labor of man. Naturally enough man''s first objects of worship were fetishes--gods of down before fetishes, man transferred his worship to gods and goddesses Neither Nature nor the gods taught man to be truthful, honest, just, imaginations of men, and a man''s idea of god is invariably the exact If yes, what kind of god was man indebted to? intelligent mind; others that Nature and men could not have come by Man simply moulds natural objects into But what experience has man of god? Man does not know god as a designer or and he therefore cannot reasonably say that god is the designer of Now, either god does not wish man to without, either from Nature or the gods, that he has achieved such An infinite and all-powerful god cannot need the assistance of man; id = 46737 author = Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer) title = The Bible: I. Authenticity II. Credibility III. Morality date = keywords = Ahaziah; B.C.; Bible; Christ; Christians; David; Gen.; God; Gospel; Israel; Jehoshaphat; Jesus; Jews; John; Judah; Lord; Luke; Matthew; Moses; New; Old; Paul; Pentateuch; Peter; Second; Solomon; Testament; king summary = In the accepted Hebrew the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament Books accepted as canonical and divine by all Jews and Christians. chapter, under the head of "Lost Books cited by writers of the Bible," Most Christians believe that all of the books of the Bible, and of at least fifty books of the Bible--thirty in the Old Testament These books, orthodox Christians affirm, were written by Moses at least at Amsterdam, says: "The book was certainly written about the time books of the Old Testament: "We cannot speak of the author of Kings In the second and third books the word God occurs 206 times, while probably written a thousand years after the time claimed. the first chapter of the second book of Kings records the reign and The Bible says that for a period of two thousand years men lived Bible divinity admit that man exists and has written books, it has id = 51793 author = Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title = A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes date = keywords = Ages; Aristotle; Athens; B.C.; Buddhism; Calvin; Cent; Christianity; Church; Cicero; Dr.; Egypt; Eng; England; English; Europe; France; Germany; Gesch; Geschichte; God; Gods; Greece; Hist; India; Inquisition; Islam; Israel; Italy; Jesus; Jews; John; Lea; Lectures; Lit; Luther; Meyer; Middle; Mosheim; Mr.; Müller; Paris; Plato; Pope; Protestantism; Reformation; Religion; Renaissance; Renan; Rome; Sokrates; Spain; Tiele; catholic; christian; french; greek; history; italian; jewish; protestant; roman summary = Like most works on religious and intellectual history written in the nature of general criticism of any story or doctrine, one such the Nature-Gods of the Veda can belong only to a later period in in our hands, the man who was without religion and God in some form Nature-power, cannot in early any more than in later times have with a common ancient superstition, seen in Arab and Greek history people, the plural name Elohim, "Powers" or "Gods" (in general, things religious philosophies set up by the priests of four Gods of water, forces and phenomena of Nature in the early way as Gods or Powers, but of form to the Greek Gods, where the early Romans, leaving all new intellectual life is set up from without, Christian thought is from meaning at all times practical enmity to Christian doctrine, God, the author of peace, and his holy law." Later English history id = 52160 author = Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title = A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes date = keywords = Abbé; Bacon; Bible; Bishop; Bolingbroke; Bruno; Charles; Christianity; Church; Collins; Descartes; Diderot; Dr.; England; English; Essay; Europe; France; Galileo; Germany; God; Hist; Hobbes; Holland; Hume; Jesus; John; Kant; Letter; Life; Locke; London; Lord; Louis; Mr.; Nature; Newton; Owen; Paine; Paris; Pope; Protestant; Reason; Religion; Revolution; Rousseau; Shaftesbury; Sir; Spain; Spinoza; States; Strauss; Testament; Thomas; Trinity; Voltaire; William; catholic; christian; french; history; scripture; work summary = be the opinion of good wits that the particular religion of Christians writes as a deist against atheists, hardly as a believing Christian. the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, a weighty attack on the critical and rationalizing work of the deistical generation could Essays on Morality and Natural Religion (published anonymously, A generally rationalistic influence is to be noted in the works known French freethinking book of the Regency period was the work of follows in time as in thought, only beginning his great work and after 1789 the new freethinking works run to critical and ethical Religion, probably written early in his life, where the rational case (1775); Count Dandolo, author of a French work on The New Men (1799); which now deism, then Christianity, then a new religion, seems to Reasonings of the Christian Religion; and the MS. Reasonings of the Christian Religion; and the MS. id = 1016 author = Spinoza, Benedictus de title = On the Improvement of the Understanding date = keywords = Peter; idea; nature; thing; understanding summary = the said knowledge concerning the things needful to be known. adequate idea, or the subjective essence of a thing: the subjective essence of things, or, in other words, the ideas itself, [o] or the subjective essences of things, or ideas, connected with others--as all things that exist in nature--will mind according to the standard of the given true idea, we should perceiving unknown things according to the standard of the true idea; existence; but if the nature of the thing be not an eternal are clear and distinct can never be false: for ideas of things idea being false is evident to everyone who understands the nature standard of a true idea, and that method is reflective knowledge), fact, that true knowledge consists in knowing things through their (108:3) That it perceives certain things, or forms some ideas (108:13) The mind can determine in many ways the ideas of things, id = 989 author = Spinoza, Benedictus de title = Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1 date = keywords = Christ; Divine; God; Hebrews; Jews; Lord; Moses; Spirit; law; scripture summary = Reason does not present God as a law-giver for men. Law revealed by God to Moses was merely the law of the individual Hebrew Universal Religion, the Divine Law revealed through the Prophets and revealed law of God, I pass on to another part of my subject, and prove that (1) Prophecy, or revelation is sure knowledge revealed by God to man. natural faculties depends on knowledge of God and His eternal laws; but (20) With a real voice God revealed to Moses the laws which He wished to be in Scripture indicating the means by which God has revealed His laws to man. (111) Lastly, the prophets were said to possess the Spirit of God because man; therefore to him also was God revealed according to his understanding Divine law is to love God as the highest good, namely, as we have said, not id = 990 author = Spinoza, Benedictus de title = Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 2 date = keywords = Bible; Ezra; God; Jews; Joshua; Moses; book; hebrew; king; scripture summary = plain that the universal laws of nature are decrees of God following from mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to miracles, in the sense of events contrary to the laws of nature, so far from order of nature or her laws, it not only can give us no knowledge of God, naturally, and are referred directly to God because Scripture, as we have Scripture does not widely differ from the method of interpreting nature in book, when the historian, after relating the words of Moses, begins again to book of the law of God," he changes into "and Joshua wrote these words that Moses wrote the book of the law, the historian adds that he handed it reasonable to suppose that Moses wrote down the laws at the time when he law of God, written, set forth, and explained by Ezra, which is referred to id = 991 author = Spinoza, Benedictus de title = A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III] date = keywords = Bible; Christ; God; Moses; Word; scripture summary = CHAPTER XIII It is shown, that Scripture teaches only very Simple Doctrines, commandment of God revealed to himself, but only the words uttered by Christ are told that God revealed the same thing to Moses in different words, and WHEREFORE SCRIPTURE IS CALLED SACRED, AND THE WORD OF GOD. expressed opinions of prophets and apostles openly proclaim that God''s I have written repugnant either to the Word of God or to true religion and the Bible is none the less the Word of God, and it is no more lawful to say of Scripture than of God''s Word that it is mutilated and corrupted. of God in so far as it affects religion, or the Divine law; we must now obedient, his creed is pious; for the true knowledge of God comes not by (24) Faith consists in a knowledge of God, without which obedience to Him id = 992 author = Spinoza, Benedictus de title = A Theological-Political Treatise [Part IV] date = keywords = Divine; God; Hebrews; Moses; law; man; right; state summary = which has sovereign right over all things; and, inasmuch as the power of nature the laws of its nature it has a sovereign right to do, inasmuch as it sovereign a right as he who orders his life entirely by the laws of reason. (16:96) If men were naturally bound by the Divine law and right, or if the Divine law and right were a natural necessity, there would have been no need everyone is bound, in the state of nature, to live according to Divine law, power, which alone is bound both by Divine and natural right to preserve and transferred to Moses their right to consult God and interpret His commands: of government, possessing the sole right of consulting God, and consequently state of nature reason has no more rights than desire, but that men living to the rights and authority of the sovereign power, and that every man id = 41450 author = Various title = The Project Gutenberg Collection of Works by Freethinkers With Linked On-line and Off-line Indexes to 157 Volumes by 90 Authors; Plus Indexes to 15 other Author''s Multi-Volume Sets. date = keywords = file summary = This is a multi volume index file The index has links to all volumes. this index and all the volumes of THE PG FREETHINKERS, on your hard Doing so will allow this index to be used with all the many links 3. 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(Joseph Mazzini) title = A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations date = keywords = Academy; April; August; Berlin; Bible; Charles; Christianity; Church; College; December; Dr.; England; English; February; France; Freethinker; Freethought; George; God; Italy; January; Jean; Jesus; John; July; June; Life; London; Louis; Man; March; Mr.; National; New; November; October; Paris; Philosophy; Professor; Religion; Revolution; Rome; Science; September; Society; Thomas; University; Voltaire; William; York; american; french; german; history; italian summary = work he published many historical, philosophical and scientific essays, philosophical work entitled Love is God. Died at Paris, 11 Dec. 1874. L.), French author of a work on the Christian Superstition, published his works, which included Essays Written to A. He wrote many works on natural history. he published Buchanan''s Journal of Man, and has written several works a member of the French Academy, wrote a treatise on the Authority wrote Principles of Physical Chemistry, a work in French on The New Debierre (Charles), French writer, author of Man Before History, 1888. He died at Paris, April, 1886, and his son published he wrote on philosophy and Christianity, and in ''41 his work called the following year he published his work on The Science of Man. His Metchnikov (Léon), Russian writer in French; author of a work on He published a work on The Philosophy of himself by publishing works on Freethought, religions, philosophy id = 45414 author = nan title = A Handbook of Freethought Containing in Condensed and Systematized Form a Vast Amount of Evidence Against the Superstitious Doctrines of Christianity date = keywords = Adam; Bible; Christ; Christianity; Cor; David; Devil; Eve; Gen.; God; Israel; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; Job; John; Lord; Luke; Magdalene; Mark; Mary; Mat; Moses; Paul; Sabbath; Satan; Son; Sunday; Testament; christian; deut; man summary = time was), God formed it into the universe in six days of creation. spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods which thou hast And if any man say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one of us. And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one of us. whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, ... And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; gods that man had become as one of them, knowing good and evil. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death;