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It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever
fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a
wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
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| The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same; but
the medical practice changes...The world has corrected the Bible. The church
never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-
and take the credit of the correction. During many ages there were witches.
The Bible said so. the Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to
live. Therefore the Church, after eight hundred years, gathered up its halters,
thumb-screws, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She
worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured,
hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian
world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry.....There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain. - "Bible Teaching and Religious Practice," Europe and Elsewhere |
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