About The Holy Bible: A Lecture
Robert Green Ingersoll
Subjects: BL, Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., I
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Subjects: BL, Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., I
Downloads: 529
The words `blasphemy', `evil' and `pagan' were hurled at Robert Ingersoll by the organized Christian Church from the moment he made his first declaration from the pulpit. And, in spite of their unanimous rejection, his words live on through today. As shown in this text his prose was terse, biting, cutting and slightly arrogant for he felt it was his purpose to bring the sacred scriptures into the glare of a more realistic realm. Deemed as being written hundreds of years after the fact, he saw the Bible as being nothing more than an exhaggerated series of folk tales that were handed down by a h.
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