A handbook of Freethought : $b containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity — John Shaqi
A handbook of Freethought : $b containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity
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A handbook of Freethought : $b containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity
Christianity -- Controversial literature; Free thought
There is no description of the style of these dresses, and we are
left without data for judging of their fitness, only we are inclined
to the opinion that the country where it was just the temperature for
the natives to go naked, skin coats would be a trifle too winterish
in style. We fail too see the necessity for such heavy clothing, or
in fact for any clothing at all, inasmuch as they were created to
go naked. For we read that, "They were both naked the man and his
wife, and were not ashamed." Or if they must have some protection
for their modesty why were not fig-leaf aprons quite sufficient for
that climate? And still further we can see no necessity for the
Lord to turn tailor and make their clothes when Adam and Eve had
already learned to sew; for "they sewed fig-leaves together and made
themselves aprons," and as the seasons changed they could easily have
learned to make garments of comfort for themselves, and also to set
the fashions for the rest of the world. The origin of the universe is
an insoluble mystery. And yet to the uninformed mind it seems to be
no problem at all. We daily hear such people reasoning in this way:
"There must have been a First Cause of all things, and that First
Cause we call God." It is only because the mind of man is uninformed,
that he reasons in this way. It requires only a little reflection
to see that there could have been no First Cause. It is clear that
every cause must have an effect, for unless it produces an effect it
cannot be a cause. Hence we cannot infer that there can be an effect
which of itself does not become a cause, producing other effects, so
that it is absolutely impossible in the nature of cause and effect,
for a last cause or a first cause to exist. As a last cause would be a
cause only when it produced an effect, and the last effect would be an
effect only when it became a cause. It is equally true that there could
be no First Cause; for whatever is, is the result of some previous
cause. We can view causation only as a chain in form of a circle.
"If we apply to this question the notion of time we see the limit of
our thought, because if we try to think of an absolute creative power
before creation, we discover that the idea is unthinkable, as infinite
and absolute creative power in the presence of inactivity and nothing
are incompatible. It could not have been creative power without
creating something. We are therefore unable to think of absolute
creative power as inert--we are equally unable to think of it inactive
in the presence of chaos, and as impotent to conceive of its existence
as absolute. We cannot think of it existing after creation, as rest
and inactivity are again incompatible with the notion of force."
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