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
Paul not only advocates celibacy which is an evil to woman, but
where the marriage relation exists he insists upon the subjection of
woman to her husband: "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your
own husbands;" (1 Peter 3 : 1.) "Obedient to their own husbands;"
(Titus 2 : 5.) "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection;"
(1 Tim. 2 : 11.) "Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let
the wives be (subject) to their own husbands in everything." (Eph.
5 : 24.)
The reasons given for woman's subjection are, "The man is not
of the woman, but the woman is of the man. Neither was the
man created for the woman, but the woman (was created) for the
man." (1 Cor. 11 : 8, 9.) "Let the woman learn in silence with
all subjection." Wherefore? Because "Adam was first formed, then
Eve." "And Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was
in the transgression." (1 Tim. 2 : 11-14.) Woman has always been the
guilty cause of man's great misfortune. Adam was not to blame but Eve
was the guilty one. Lot was innocent but his daughters were fearfully
wicked. Joseph did not tempt anyone, but his master's wife tempted
him. Job, dear man, was all patience, but his wife flew into a rage,
and tried to have him curse God and die. Solomon, the pure-hearted and
single-minded man of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines
was inspired to say, "One man among a thousand have I found, but a
woman among all these have I not found." (Eccl. 7 : 28.)
And to this day the Christian marriage ceremony demands of woman that
she promise to love, honor, and obey her husband.
The Bible Sanctions Slavery.
What driveling idiots we mortals have been to suppose for a moment
that a good being, a heavenly father, would let one part of his family
hold the other in slavery!
Moreover of the children of the strangers, that do sojourn,
of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you,
which they begat in your land, and they shall be your possession.
And ye shall take as an inheritance for your children after you, to
inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever,
but over your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule
one over another with rigor. (Lev. 25 : 45, 46.)
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the
seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself
he shall go out by himself; if he were married, then his wife shall
go out with him; if his master has given him a wife, and she has
borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be
her master's and he shall go out by himself. (Ex. 21 : 2-4.)
The New Testament Sanctions Slavery.
Servants, obey in all things your master according to the flesh;
not with eye-service, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart,
fearing God. (Col. 3 : 22.)
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