 Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than...  Texas Iconoclast, Maury Maverick Jr - Page 110de Maury Maverick - 1997 - 299 pagesAperçu limité - À propos de ce livre
 | Elhanan Winchester - 1844 - 72 pages
...the obscene stories, the voluptuous deaucheries, the cruel and torturous eieenons, the uurelenting e to the Romans St. Paul says, 'We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin called iitht ivordof a demon than the word of God. It is history of wickedness that has served to orrupt... | |
 | 1844
...Bible. When we ead the obscene stories, the voluptuous deaucheries, the cruel and torturous execuions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it ould be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is history of... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio). Committee of Arrangements for the Paine Festival - 1856 - 35 pages
...say. So much of it he believed ; all of it, he certainly did not. He says of the Old Testament : " It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind ; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest every thing that is cruel." And holding... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1859 - 479 pages
...Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 466 pages
...with the round assertion that, 'when we read the obscene stories, the cruel and barbarous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness,' he adds, ' that... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876
...with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness,' he adds, ' that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind ; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1878
...voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and_torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, ^TtlTwhich more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, ~ tKan the worcTqf God. TTis^a history of wTcRe~dness, that has served... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1892 - 186 pages
...vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is...history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and 6P brutalize mankind ; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1892 - 432 pages
...Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1896
...vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible1 is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God. It is...wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind ; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. 1 It must be borne... | |
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