The Christian Creed; or, What it is Blasphemy to DenyBesant, Annie
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The Christian Creed; or, What it is Blasphemy to Deny
Besant, Annie
Christianity -- Controversial literature
upon the mouth thereof. Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and
behold there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for
they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah
between the earth and the heaven. Then said I to the angel that talked
with me, whither do these bear the ephah? And he said unto me, to build
it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set
there upon her own base.” (Zech. v., 5—11.) Yet if we do not believe
this we shall be dammed.
I might heap together yet more of these absurdities, but to what end?
Who but a lunatic could have written such incoherent matter? Yet this
Old Testament, containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality is by
English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy —if
there were anyone to be blasphemed—blacker and more insolent than any
word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.
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