 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
 | Peter R. Ackroyd, Christopher Francis Evans, S. L. Greenslade, Geoffrey William Hugo Lampe - 1963 - 652 pages
...the Old Testament he writes: 'When we read the obscure 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 that has served to... | |
 | Philip L. Barlow - 1997
..."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." 2 But while such critics received publicity,... | |
 | David Norton - 1993 - 868 pages
...vindictiveness with which more than half the Bihle is filled, it would he 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 to cotrupt and hrutalize mankind. (n: 7-8, 1: i 3) This, of course, reverses the view that takes whatever... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1092 pages
...Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, . called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to... | |
 | Thomas Paine, Professor of History Eric Foner - 1995 - 906 pages
...When 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... | |
 | Joss Marsh - 1998 - 431 pages
...with which more than half the [Old Testament] is filled[,] it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a Demon than the Word of God. It is...that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, (indictment, in CC; Paine 60) "What would your feelings be," Attorney-General Gifford asked in court,... | |
 | V. Philips Long - 1999 - 612 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 to... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1999 - 577 pages
...when 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."4 Cheever assumed, optimistically, that there... | |
 | Thomas J. Scirghi - 2000 - 258 pages
..."Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than...wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize man." See J. Lienhard, The Bible, the Church, and Authority: The Canon of the Christian Bible in History... | |
 | Kenn Thomas - 2000 - 132 pages
..."Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous 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... | |
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