The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 04 (of 12): Dresden Edition—LecturesIngersoll, Robert Green
Religion
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 04 (of 12): Dresden Edition—Lectures
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Free thought
I. If the Devil should Die, would God Make Another?--How was the Idea
of a Devil Produced--Other Devils than Ours--Natural Origin of these
Monsters--II. The Atlas of Christianity is The Devil--The Devil of the
Old Testament--The Serpent in Eden--"Personifications" of Evil--Satan
and Job--Satan and David--III. Take the Devil from the Drama
of Christianity and the Plot is Gone--Jesus Tempted by the Evil
One--Demoniac Possession--Mary Magdalene--Satan and Judas--Incubi
and Succubi--The Apostles believed in Miracles and Magic--The Pool of
Bethesda--IV. The Evidence of the Church--The Devil was forced to
Father the Failures of God--Belief of the Fathers of the Church
in Devils--Exorcism at the Baptism of an Infant in the Sixteenth
Century--Belief in Devils made the Universe a Madhouse presided over by
an Insane God--V. Personifications of the Devil--The Orthodox Ostrich
Thrusts his Head into the Sand--If Devils are Personifications so are
all the Other Characters of the Bible--VI. Some Queries about the
Devil, his Place of Residence, his Manner of Living, and his Object in
Life--Interrogatories to the Clergy--VII. The Man of Straw the Master
of the Orthodox Ministers--His recent Accomplishments--VIII. Keep the
Devils out of Children--IX. Conclusion.--Declaration of the Free.
PROGRESS.
(1860-64.)
The Prosperity of the World depends upon its Workers--Veneration for the
Ancient--Credulity and Faith of the Middle Ages--Penalty for Reading
the Scripture in the Mother Tongue--Unjust, Bloody, and Cruel Laws--The
Reformers too were Persecutors--Bigotry of Luther and Knox--Persecution
of Castalio--Montaigne against Torture in France--"Witchcraft" (chapter
on)--Confessed Wizards--A Case before Sir Matthew Hale--Belief
in Lycanthropy--Animals Tried and Executed--Animals received
as Witnesses--The Corsned or Morsel of Execution--Kepler an
Astrologer--Luther's Encounter with the Devil--Mathematician
Stoefflers, Astronomical Prediction of a Flood--Histories Filled with
Falsehood--Legend about the Daughter of Pharaoh invading Scotland and
giving the Country her name--A Story about Mohammed--A History of the
Britains written by Archdeacons--Ingenuous Remark of Eusebius--Progress
in the Mechanic Arts--England at the beginning of the Eighteenth
Century--Barbarous Punishments--Queen Elizabeth's Order Concerning
Clergymen and Servant Girls--Inventions of Watt, Arkwright, and
Others--Solomon's Deprivations--Language (chapter on)--Belief that the
Hebrew was< the original Tongue--Speculations about the Language
of Paradise--Geography (chapter on)--The Works of Cosmas--Printing
Invented--Church's Opposition to Books--The Inquisition--The
Reformation--"Slavery" (chapter on)--Voltaire's Remark on Slavery as
a Contract--White Slaves in Greece, Rome, England, Scotland, and
France--Free minds make Free Bodies--Causes of the Abolition of White
Slavery in Europe--The French Revolution--The African Slave Trade,
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