The Republican, Volume 9Richard Carlile R. Carlile, 1824 - Free thought |
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... moral , to keep reading this book called the New Testament , and to be immoral , to cease to read it . I continue to read it from fear of personal injury and bad reputation ; I arrive at manhood ; I take a wife ; I become a father ; and ...
... moral , to keep reading this book called the New Testament , and to be immoral , to cease to read it . I continue to read it from fear of personal injury and bad reputation ; I arrive at manhood ; I take a wife ; I become a father ; and ...
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... moral teachings are not original , and so scanty , that every moral man might be supposed to be teaching as much or more in every hour's conversation . This I take to be sufficient internal evidence , that the alleged Gospels are ...
... moral teachings are not original , and so scanty , that every moral man might be supposed to be teaching as much or more in every hour's conversation . This I take to be sufficient internal evidence , that the alleged Gospels are ...
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... moral and immoral sentences is about equal in each , and as St. Mat- thew's is generally believed to have been the first written , I have carefully prepared an analysis of this book , under the heads of " Moral Sentences " . " Immoral ...
... moral and immoral sentences is about equal in each , and as St. Mat- thew's is generally believed to have been the first written , I have carefully prepared an analysis of this book , under the heads of " Moral Sentences " . " Immoral ...
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... every sentence that teaches a moral ; and sorry I am to see that they are nothing more than those common place sentiments which the most ignorant man may be supposed capable of uttering and observing . They will bear no THE REPUBLICAN . 7.
... every sentence that teaches a moral ; and sorry I am to see that they are nothing more than those common place sentiments which the most ignorant man may be supposed capable of uttering and observing . They will bear no THE REPUBLICAN . 7.
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... morals of other ancient writers , who were not degraded with Judaism or Christianity . Confu- cius is incomparably ... morality of the New Testament is buried in a mass of immorality and romantic tale , and it is therefore a very unfit ...
... morals of other ancient writers , who were not degraded with Judaism or Christianity . Confu- cius is incomparably ... morality of the New Testament is buried in a mass of immorality and romantic tale , and it is therefore a very unfit ...
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Page 6 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and then shall thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 7 - And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive...
Page 825 - And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple : and forthwith the doors were shut.
Page 12 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 6 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 826 - Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Page 828 - But of the cities of these people which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth...
Page 59 - Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 542 - But an evil day came upon us. Your forefathers crossed the great waters, and landed on this island. Their numbers were small. They found friends and not enemies. They told us they had fled from their own country for fear of wicked men, and had come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat.
Page 542 - BROTHER : Our seats were once large and yours were small. You have now become a great people, and we have scarcely a place left to spread our blankets.