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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 221 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 79164 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 72 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 156 God 100 man 73 Christianity 69 Lord 62 Bible 60 Jesus 59 Mr. 58 Church 57 christian 57 New 51 religion 49 Christ 45 Testament 43 Jews 39 John 36 Dr. 32 England 31 Egypt 30 Moses 28 nature 28 life 28 Old 27 Rome 25 great 24 world 23 Paul 22 Father 21 Christians 20 Holy 20 Greece 20 Europe 19 jewish 19 St. 19 Israel 18 Jehovah 17 scripture 17 roman 17 King 17 India 17 Greek 16 Professor 15 good 14 reason 14 history 14 god 14 Son 14 London 14 France 14 David 14 Adam Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 63018 man 26757 time 23185 world 22254 life 20442 religion 19247 day 18336 thing 18183 people 15135 god 15113 word 14618 year 14499 mind 14126 p. 14115 fact 13991 power 13876 nature 13726 name 12894 part 12853 form 12739 place 12583 work 12389 soul 12278 way 12088 idea 11925 hand 11701 body 11555 law 11405 death 11281 nothing 11138 earth 10939 child 10929 reason 10634 woman 10255 book 10065 case 10030 one 9982 spirit 9542 truth 9147 belief 9085 king 8773 knowledge 8559 doctrine 8529 history 8347 being 8179 other 8098 thought 8052 person 8036 question 7950 order 7810 water Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 137383 _ 34099 God 9889 Mr. 9092 Jesus 8545 Christ 7689 god 6764 Church 6695 . 6668 Christianity 6613 Lord 6195 pp 5981 Bible 5679 New 5614 heaven 5185 Rev. 4950 John 4761 Dr. 4741 thou 4484 Brahman 3867 Christians 3768 Christian 3707 i. 3594 Testament 3488 Footnote 3485 � 3483 Jews 3329 King 3304 Gospel 3244 ii 3174 St. 3071 sq 3024 Paul 3016 Rome 2952 de 2901 J. 2894 W. 2865 Sir 2775 Moses 2772 Greek 2762 England 2760 Old 2749 C. 2680 c. 2627 Egypt 2523 India 2400 London 2324 Father 2315 Europe 2271 M. 2121 | Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; 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"How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 119287 not 38958 so 32473 other 31044 more 29273 only 27133 great 23499 then 19661 same 19108 now 19043 first 18579 such 18203 also 17563 most 17243 as 17207 many 17144 very 16625 up 16149 even 15809 well 15511 good 15021 own 13189 out 13107 human 12951 thus 12646 old 12083 much 11757 long 11694 never 11341 religious 10673 far 10614 high 10490 here 10070 still 10043 true 9540 little 9275 new 9246 again 8926 certain 8612 ever 8502 early 8262 therefore 8017 down 7843 however 7692 last 7178 yet 7154 too 7068 away 7014 whole 6962 christian 6952 there Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4053 least 3957 high 3606 good 3285 most 2586 great 1245 early 791 slight 724 low 675 old 540 bad 517 Most 469 strong 372 noble 353 near 350 late 285 manif 270 small 260 large 231 wise 227 simple 224 deep 204 pure 198 fine 166 eld 165 brave 149 young 135 rich 133 able 132 fair 130 grand 114 fit 108 clear 107 full 106 gross 90 mean 89 lofty 84 wide 84 l 82 true 77 dark 73 wild 73 weak 73 vile 73 common 71 long 68 happy 68 easy 66 holy 66 dear 65 sure Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14277 most 589 well 565 least 19 highest 17 lest 12 greatest 10 oldest 10 long 7 worst 7 near 7 hard 7 goethe 6 manifest 6 latest 4 youngest 4 nepenthe 3 shortest 3 oddest 3 hearest 3 brightest 2 ¦ 2 writhe 2 tempest 2 soon 2 richest 2 neutest 2 mind-- 2 farthest 2 easiest 2 coldest 2 clearest 2 aldermen 1 winnest 1 widest 1 walkest 1 volsungs,--the 1 truest 1 things,--or 1 swiftest 1 strongest 1 speakest 1 sittest 1 sayest 1 quick 1 question:--are 1 quaest 1 profoundest 1 philosophers;--the 1 passover--''the 1 passest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 www.gutenberg.org 2 www.hti.umich.edu 2 www.gutenberg.net 2 www.archive.org 2 gallica.bnf.fr 2 djvued.libs.uga.edu 1 gallica.bnf.fr.] 1 dp.rastko.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 2 http://gallica.bnf.fr 1 http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=genpub;idno=AFL0522.0001.001 1 http://www.hti.umich.edu/ 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40812/40812-h/40812-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40812/40812-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32326/32326-h/32326-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32326/32326-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32242/32242-h/32242-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32242/32242-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/2/0/15202/15202-h/15202-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/2/0/15202/15202-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/wonderbookforgir00hawt 1 http://www.archive.org 1 http://gallica.bnf.fr.] 1 http://dp.rastko.net 1 http://djvued.libs.uga.edu/J84xSI3x1/1f/swastika_history_report.pdf 1 http://djvued.libs.uga.edu Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 3 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk 2 freethought@despammed.com Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 177 god is not 161 man is not 147 _ is _ 96 god did not 83 religion is not 70 god does not 69 man does not 65 men are not 65 world is not 58 soul is not 57 men do not 55 _ are _ 47 _ see _ 47 man was not 47 religion does not 44 life is not 43 people do not 43 time went on 42 people are not 41 _ is not 39 _ was _ 38 _ know _ 38 god has not 38 world has ever 37 god is infinite 36 death is not 35 god was not 35 man did not 34 god made man 34 man has ever 34 things are not 33 nature does not 32 _ does _ 32 nature is not 31 god is good 30 mind is not 27 people did not 26 _ were _ 26 body is not 26 god is love 26 man has not 26 people were not 25 _ do _ 25 god is infinitely 25 god is responsible 25 men were not 25 thing is not 24 men did not 24 name is not 24 religion was not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 man is not only 10 god is no respecter 8 man is not free 7 religion is no more 7 world are not sufficient 6 god has no time 6 god is not only 6 man is no more 5 god is not good 5 life is no longer 5 man has no property 5 man has not only 5 man is not necessarily 5 religion is not so 5 time is no more 5 time is not far 5 world is not yet 4 _ was no doubt 4 god is not far 4 god is not responsible 4 god is not so 4 god was not willing 4 gods were not ignorant 4 life is not worth 4 man has no more 4 man has no right 4 man has not yet 4 man is not immortal 4 man is not responsible 4 man is not so 4 men are not free 4 men were not only 4 mind is no more 4 things are not true 3 day was not far 3 death is not so 3 god has no right 3 god has not plainly 3 god is not matter 3 gods did not even 3 ideas were not somewhat 3 life knew no leisure 3 man had no idea 3 man has no control 3 man has no ideas 3 man is not exempt 3 man is not happy 3 man sees no absurdity 3 man was not only 3 men have no right A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 7377 author = Abhedananda, Swami title = Five Lectures on Reincarnation date = keywords = God; Reincarnation; Vedanta; body; life; soul; theory; transmigration summary = which means the germ of life or the living soul of man, is not Platonic idea of the pre-existence and rebirth of human souls. unreasonableness of such a theory, believe that human souls are gradual evolution of the germs of life from lower to higher stages of In explaining the theory of Evolution, science says that there are two powers that remain latent have the natural tendency to manifest body is nothing but the manifested form of certain dormant powers that animal or human nature of the subtle body. evolution of the germ of life or the individual soul. evolution of the germ of life or the individual soul. existence of soul after the dissolution of the human body. The doctrine of Reincarnation says that each individual soul is one-birth theory; that is, that God creates the souls at the time of which exist in the germ of life or in the individual soul. id = 37697 author = Adler, Felix title = Creed and Deed: A Series of Discourses date = keywords = Bible; Christianity; David; Deity; God; Hebrews; Ideal; Israel; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; Judaism; Moses; Pentateuch; Spinoza; Talmud; christian; german; great; jewish; life; man; nature; new; religion; time summary = Hebrew Religion and Reformed Judaism from the _Popular Science Monthly future state in which the good shall be rewarded, and the evil punished, to the doctrine of a personal God. Among the lower races we find men itself shall occupy the highest rank, and that the purpose human life on There shall come a new Ideal to attract passing years of ours, when the ideal bearings of life come home to us The great men whom the past has wronged, receive at last time''s tardy they may form, as it were, one body and one mind, is the ideal of life. Religion and piety lead us to follow the laws of necessity in the world said that the old order of things must entirely pass away; a new heaven of scripture--they laid down new forms of religious observance by means also on the general subject of religion and morals, into his work; and id = 37694 author = Allen, Ethan title = Reason, the Only Oracle of Man; Or, A Compendius System of Natural Religion date = keywords = Adam; Bible; Christ; God; Holy; Israel; Lord; Moses; SECTON; man; nature; reason; suppose; thing summary = of God, so from our own rational nature we learn an idea of his moral moral rectitude of the divine nature is infinitely well pleasing to God, unerring guidance of the providence of God. Animal nature consists of a regular constitution of a variety of organic contradiction in nature, and consequently impossible for God to inspire, AND AGENCY OF GOD, AS IT RESPECTS THE NATURAL AND MORAL WORLD, WITH in the nature of things possible for us to receive, or for God external and natural revelation, in which God is supposed to make use human mind, through which God reveals to man the knowledge of nature, of God, either in his eternal constitution of nature, or in a supposed power of God, countermanding his eternal order of nature, and impressing any alteration in the nature of things, or providence of God, is knowledge of things is derived from God, in and by the order of nature, id = 40982 author = Annet, Peter title = The Miraculous Conception Or, The Divinity of Jesus Christ Considered as the Foundation of the Christian Religion date = keywords = God; Joseph; Mary summary = appeared unto him in a dream, saying, ''Joseph, thou son of David, fear is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt And Zacharias said unto the angel, ''Whereby shall I know this? And the angel said unto her, ''Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found Then said Mary unto the angel, ''How shall this be, seeing I know And the angel answered and said unto her, ''The Holy Ghost shall In a long note, appended to the 16th verse of the 1st chapter of St. Matthew, reasons are given for rejecting the story of the miraculous Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, ''Joseph, thou son of David, that God had got his wife with child, and that an angel had been sent to not a man." The angel replies,--"The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, Matthew''s relation, according to which Mary had said nothing to Joseph id = 38585 author = Anonymous title = Study of Inner Cultivation date = keywords = Dao summary = don''t mean the same thing in the Nei Ye as they do in the Dao De Jing for life and that can dwell in the heart/mind; it is left untranslated so not, because the "form of the heart/mind" is referred to several times "all things under heaven", but it is translated as "the world" because the Is certainly due to worries and happiness, love and anger, desire for profit. Your heart/mind then returns [to its original nature] successfully. Now : Dao is the reason that the form [of the heart/mind] is full! It is the reason that we cultivate the heart/mind and properly align A regulated heart/mind resides in his center, If the form [of the heart/mind] is not properly aligned, Do not allow the senses to confuse your heart/mind. With a properly aligned heart/mind located in the center, E : "spirit-like" is taken to mean that your understanding of Dao has id = 39414 author = Anonymous title = The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices date = keywords = Aaron; Brahma; Christianity; Cross; Dr.; Egypt; Egyptians; God; India; Indians; Isis; Jupiter; Osiris; Siva; Sun; Thor; Trinity; Vishnu; christian; deity; form; worship summary = well-known great antiquity, amongst whose symbols or ornaments the cross The fact is, there is great similarity between the cross worship, or that it was known and had a symbolical meaning among ancient nations long Charged with worshipping a cross, he says:--"As for him who affirms that Christian memorials by being formed in the figure of a cross or marked different attributes, the cross was common as an object of worship and the following chief forms of the cross common in all parts of the world. Perhaps, originally, the cross had but one meaning, whatever its form; it god of the winds, bore as his sign of office a mace like the cross of a some ancient Etruscan remains, a cross formed of four phalli of equal writer, "that the ancient cross was an emblem of the belief in a male god is represented like all the solar deities with four hands, and id = 40979 author = Anonymous title = A Letter to Sir Samuel Shepherd, Knt., His Majesty''s Attorney General Upon the Subject of His Prosecutions of Richard Carlile, for Publishing Paine''s Age of Reason date = keywords = Attorney; General; Jesus; Mr.; Society; religion summary = Therefore, as Paine''s Age of Reason is an objection against the truth of the truth and validity of Jesus''s pretensions; and as the conduct of the offer to argue with Jesus''s followers upon the truth or falsehood personal moral character of Jesus, you call that blasphemy. question, as Jesus''s followers usually do. Descant, Mr. Attorney-General, as you think proper upon the good moral tendency of Jesus''s priests are apt to injure the intellect of young people by telling them, that if they do not believe Jesus''s religion they will be consider that Jesus''s religion is always taken up as a prejudice, and is establish and show an inconsistency in Jesus''s religion, but it does means used for propagating religion for the good of men''s souls; now innocence as a _libeller_ of that religion, whether _they_ believe it of religion generally there is a book which every lover of truth must id = 40980 author = Anonymous title = The Life of David; Or, The History of the Man After God''s Own Heart date = keywords = Absalom; David; God; Joab; Lord; Sam; Samuel; Saul; Ver; king; man summary = world''s being troubled with a new history of king David, (which, _Son of David!_ so illustrious, that on the death of the late king life and transactions of David, king of Israel. of king David been satisfied with applying to him this common-place informed that David returned from Saul to feed his father''s sheep(5) before Saul, the king cast a javelin at him,**** which David avoided. glorious sight to have seen David bring the foreskins to king Saul, that, compared with David, Saul had a strong army with, him; and had the Saul again pursues David with three thousand chosen men; again That in each story David comes upon Saul in much the same manner, V. That in the second relation, Saul, when he acknowledges David''s Saul''s son, king over Israel.* It may be remarked here, that David did made king over all Israel, came and disturbed him; but David according id = 40983 author = Anonymous title = Thoughts on the Christian Religion, by a Deist To Which Are Added, a Few Ideas on Miraculous Conversion, and Religion in General, by a Theophilanthropist date = keywords = Bible; Christianity; God; christian; man; reason summary = the power of eloquence, there ever was a reasonable thinking man, who as good doctrine, converted ten times as many followers, and was far A doctrine that is reasonable and true, will appear so to establish it, and cannot be proved by human means, is neither reasonable Paine''s Age of Reason, has created a general and well-founded alarm. 1. I believe in one God, or first cause, wise, powerful, and good; and 2. I believe in the equality of men by nature (though so different by inferred from nature, reason, and experience: for the only idea that we ages, that Nature, in the creation of man, acts impartially and equally; the unerring authority of natural reason, would be to accuse the Deity that the "Age of Reason," and other works of a similar nature, should be too much the appearance of human reason, I have not thought id = 40984 author = Anonymous title = Christian Mystery: A Chinese Tale, Found in the Portfolio of a Portuguese Friar date = keywords = God summary = man to appease God the Father. the Father produce God the Son? is a third person who proceeds from the Father and the Son. I suppose O, Sir, these are mysteries which God himself has revealed to men, to continued: God wished to humble men''s reason, that is, to give them a And the Son of God has been a man from all eternity? The Holy Ghost was found out to be God after twelve hundred years had As you love this God so much, I suppose he was born in your country? Know then that God sent his Son among this was the man after God''s own heart, and the son was the wisest of men. The Son of God, who became a man, descended in a direct line from this that this was formerly the favourite people of God, and all other that this was formerly the favourite people of God, and all other id = 18041 author = Anwyl, E. (Edward) title = Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times date = keywords = Britain; Caesar; Celts; Druids; Gaul; Welsh; celtic; man; religion summary = religion the Aryan conquerors of Celtic lands may have brought with them, Celtic religion, in the names of its deities, its rites, and its In the chief countries of Celtic civilisation, Gaul, Cisalpine and the dominant type of Celtic speech over the greater part of Gaul came to whether he was haunted or not, early man in the Celtic world as The place of animal-worship in the Celtic religion the historic deities of Gaul and Britain in Roman times could have come speaks as the ancient god of the Gauls, was probably regarded as her son, CHAPTER IV--CELTIC RELIGION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALISED DEITIES Like other religions, those of the Celtic lands of Europe supplemented The more we investigate the state of the Celtic world in ancient times, solution of early man in the Celtic world was, that within him there was tends to confirm the view that early man, in the Celtic world as id = 11924 author = Archer, W. G. (William George) title = The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry date = keywords = Balarama; Bhagavata; Footnote; Gita; God; Hills; Kansa; Krishna; Mathura; Nanda; Pandavas; Punjab; Purana; Radha; Vasudeva; Vishnu; Yasoda; illustration; indian; plate summary = The god is Krishna in his lovely youth. painting but realize why Krishna, the adored lover, should still enchant In this way Krishna lives among them--in fact, God, but in the eyes At this point the cowgirls'' love for Krishna is clearly physical. taken birth as cowherds and cowgirls in order to delight in Krishna as One night Krishna and Balarama are in the forest with the cowgirls when a bring presents, Krishna and Balarama will come with other cowherds. that Krishna is God and that in order to destroy demons he has come on Krishna himself was God and since he had shown divine love Like other cowgirls, her love for Krishna is The first pictures of Krishna to be painted in India fall within this Radha, Krishna''s chief cowgirl love, 15, 16, 72-90, 96, 98, 103-105, The present picture illustrates phases of this glamorous love-making--Krishna _Radha and Krishna making Love_ id = 47127 author = Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron title = Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations date = keywords = Adam; America; Asia; B.C.; Bacchus; Baring; Bryant; Bunsen; Captain; Catlin; Chronicle; Colonel; Deluge; Egypt; Europe; Gainet; Gen.; Genesis; God; Gould; Greece; Greek; Ham; Homer; Indians; Janus; John; Law; Lord; Lubbock; M''Lennan; Macdonell; Maine; Mandan; Max; Mythology; Müller; New; Nimrod; Noah; Palmer; Rawlinson; Rev.; Rome; Sanscrit; Saturn; Sir; Vide; egyptian; history; roman; tradition summary = for instance, when in a certain case the law of nations says that the point of view of Scripture, of some 2000 years B.C. At the present moment the discussion takes the form of philological tradition of a common morality,[89] and of the law of nations. age by a great _drought_--[compare this tradition with the following state of nature was brought into contact with the tradition of a law of tradition of a law common to all nations, it would be more likely to That the fact of a tradition of "a law common to all nations" and Romans recovered their tradition of the law common to all nations. tradition "of a law common to all nations," there were at any rate tradition of a law of nations, the fact creates so great a presumption the tradition of a law of nations from the fact that a body of men id = 19051 author = Atkins, Gaius Glenn title = Modern Religious Cults and Movements date = keywords = Bible; Christian; Christianity; Church; Divine; East; Eddy; Footnote; God; Health; Jesus; Mrs.; New; Protestantism; Quimby; Science; Spiritualism; Theosophy; Thought; West; faith; life; mind; religion; religious; western summary = decades past, such as: Faith Healing; Christian Science; New Thought; insight into the deeper experience of the religious life."--_Christian Mrs. Eddy''s System--Experience and Life--Sense-Testimony--The mental healing, to which Christian Science and New Thought are so much _Christian Science a Philosophy, a Theology, a Religion and a System of Christian Science is offered as a philosophy, a theology, a religion and basis of Christian Science, the power of mind over matter, all the Christian Science, and attributes all power to God" (page 473). _The Real Power of Christian Science is in Neither Its Philosophy Nor Christian Science cannot in the end be true to the great facts of movements in science and philosophy and understandings of life generally "We affirm the new thought of God as Universal Love, Life, Truth, and As a principle of healing New Thought differs from Christian Science in Christian Science denies New Thought ignores. Christian Science and New Thought are id = 26364 author = Atkinson, William Walker title = Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect date = keywords = Christian; Church; God; Hindu; India; Karma; Law; Philosophy; Reincarnation; Spirit; Yogi; body; life; soul; teaching; western summary = reincarnating soul to a body, and conditions, in accordance with the future return of the soul to a new body on earth. number of these primitive people hold to the idea of a complex soul, teaching of Pre-existence of the Soul and some form of Rebirth or they held to a belief in reincarnation of the soul, from one form to The Yogi Philosophy teaches that the soul will reincarnate on earth in the idea of Rebirth a doctrine that appeals to their souls and minds held to be a fact--the soul sees the past life as a whole, and in all of there to pass an eternal existence--while other souls have to live out According to the doctrine of Reincarnation, the little babe''s soul was soul exists, but that it reincarnates after the death of the body. Body, which doctrine really did not teach the "immortality of the soul" id = 36270 author = Aveling, Edward B. title = The Gospel of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures date = keywords = Gospel; man; matter; motion summary = indestructibility of matter and of motion, and in the infinite nature of the transformations of matter and motion, they have a solid fact on of the universe has been in terms of matter and of motion. bodies, the nature of chemical elements and compounds, the relation forms of matter are in certain states of motion. our study of organic chemistry are groups of two or atoms of two or more accurate we ought to find isolated forms of dead animals and plants, If we pass up into the kingdoms of the living, and study plants and feed on decaying organic things, is the natural transition between the our inorganic and organic kingdoms, our plants and animals, our classes, forms of plants and animals yet known. Study of nature to find out what is; work to apply the knowledge that we should turn from god to man, from prayer to work, from dreaming id = 12852 author = Baden-Powell, B. H. (Baden Henry) title = Creation and Its Records A Brief Statement of Christian Belief with Reference to Modern Facts and Ancient Scripture date = keywords = Adam; Bible; CHAPTER; Divine; Euphrates; Garden; Genesis; God; Professor; St.; Tigris; creation; fact; footnote; form; life; man; scripture; water summary = thing as creative design and providence existed in the course of nature. asserts the successive creation of fully-formed animals by sudden acts general one, of the Theory of Evolution as regards the forms of matter the difference; the water once existing is obviously only a new form of The fact is that every organic form, whether plant or animal, derived now know of were developed.[1] It _is_ a fact that all organic forms The contention then is: given certain original simple forms of life, [Footnote 1: "Age and Origin of Man"--Present-Day Tract Series.] natural causes and by slow steps from any lower form of animal life. the great facts that God (and none other) originated all things--that doubtful forms of obscure elementary plant and animal life appear the direct work of creating life-forms, to adjust certain matters and the actual life-forms in plant and animal, they came into existence id = 18564 author = Bailey, Cyril title = The Religion of Ancient Rome date = keywords = Genius; Iuno; Iuppiter; Mars; Rome; festival; god; religion; roman; state; worship summary = Romans the earlier worship of the object tends to give way to the cult god, an idea which later religion expressed in the cult-title specially prominent a part in Roman religion as the cult of other natural The Relation of Gods and Men.=--The character of the Roman was or two of the normal religious acts of the Roman individual or state. Roman religion--the immediateness of relation between the god and his notion of the situation and character of the Roman community: religion Festivals of Spring.=--The old Roman year--as may be seen clearly Since, in the matter of religion, the Roman state is in the main but household-cult to the religion of the state. festivals the state was observing: of the 355 days of the old Calendar of the Roman religion, is to be found in the worship of the household. religion was in the Roman state. id = 55531 author = Beecher, Catharine Esther title = Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People date = keywords = Adam; Bible; CHAPTER; Christ; Church; Creator; God; New; author; cause; chap; desire; emotion; good; great; man; mind; nature; object; power; thing summary = TWO CLASSES OF CAUSES EXIST, VIZ., MATERIAL THINGS, WHICH ACT ON MIND, involves a reference to the _object_ or _design_ of the Author of mind. a given act will do great harm and no good, every mind will feel that it nature and action of our own minds, and of the qualities and powers of by leading a dependent mind to right action, it proves a most powerful _Sensation_ is a state of mind produced by material objects acting on _Association_ is the power possessed by the mind of recalling ideas in mind gains an idea of the existence of some outward object. mind, a new desire is awakened of _moral power_. Another quality of mind which becomes a cause of love is the power of In regard to the power of the mind over its own desires and emotions, it other cause than the natural constitution of mind, which is formed to be id = 22381 author = Berens, E. M. title = Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome date = keywords = Achilles; Agamemnon; Aphrodite; Apollo; Artemis; Athene; Aïdes; Cronus; Delphi; Demeter; Dionysus; Eurystheus; Greece; Greeks; Gæa; Hephæstus; Heracles; Hermes; Jason; Medea; Mount; Muses; Odysseus; Olympus; Pallas; Persephone; Poseidon; Romans; Rome; Thebes; Theseus; Troy; Zeus; god; illustration summary = being called heroes or demi-gods, who were usually renowned for their great Rhea, the wife of Cronus, and mother of Zeus and the other great gods of with Heracles, the favourite son of Zeus, which is as follows:--Hera having Zeus and a sea-nymph called Dione, was the goddess of Love and Beauty. We have seen that when Apollo assumed his god-like form, he took his place hand of Alcestis, the beautiful daughter of Pelias, son of Poseidon; but Hephæstus, the son of Zeus and Hera, was the god of fire in its beneficial The sea-god was the father of two giant sons called Otus and Ephialtes.[40] Ares, the son of Zeus and Hera, was the god of war, who gloried in strife the son of Zeus and Danaë, daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos. received by king Demophoon, the son of the great hero Theseus. id = 13349 author = Besant, Annie title = Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History date = keywords = A.D.; Canon; Christ; Christianity; Christians; Church; Clement; Dr.; Father; God; Gospels; Greek; Ibid; Jesus; Jews; John; Josephus; Justin; Logos; Lord; Luke; Mark; Matthew; Messiah; New; Paley; Peter; Rome; St.; Testament; apostle; jewish; roman summary = a passage has been inserted in Josephus (born A.D. 37, died about A.D. 100) relating to Jesus Christ, which runs as follows: "Now, there was the New Testament, and the most ancient writers in the Christian Church" preached the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to a whole passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour God, Nicodemus recorded in the life of Jesus, and circumstances of Christian history, derived in the Gospels, and concludes that Justin "gives us Christ''s sayings in useful witness to the Christians if the present Gospels had been Joseph, who in St. Luke is placed as the son of Heli, whilst in St. Matthew his father''s name is Jacob" ("Christian Records," Dr. Giles, p. historical existence or not; it is _Christ_, the Sun-god, not _Jesus_, "Word," of God, stand out in pre-Christian times--the Greek Plato and Christian Gospels as writings of ancient men, founders of a id = 37234 author = Besant, Annie title = My Path to Atheism date = keywords = Almighty; Atonement; Bible; Christ; Christianity; Christians; Church; Deity; Divine; England; Father; Ghost; God; Holy; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Son; Spirit; Supreme; child; jewish; life; man; nature; prayer summary = laid by his teaching the world is slowly rising to a purer faith in God. We need now such a leader as he was--one who would dare to follow the work of God" is to believe on him; he gives "life unto the world;" he man, in order to make men acceptable to God. It is, perhaps, scarcely towards sin, and offering to God for man a perfect repentance for human infirmity which men have transferred to their idea of God. A man who has announced his intention to punish may be persuaded out of humanity, and to be an heir of God it needs only to be a son of man. man Jesus is readily grasped by a child''s intellect; the God of the Old Power which man calls God. Revelation depicts Him as changeable, nature as man, then God did not come from heaven to save men; then this is id = 38273 author = Besant, Annie title = Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature date = keywords = Bible; Chief; Justice; Lord summary = AN ENQUIRY WHETHER THE BIBLE COMES WITHIN THE RULING OF THE LORD CHIEF Lord Chief Justice intended, or than the legal ally of Nature and The ruling of the present Lord Chief Justice in the late trial is in Chief Justice then refers to the very species of book against which Lord Does the Bible come within the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to the Lord Chief Justice are of such an extremely coarse and disgusting ruling of the Lord Chief Justice to suppress the Bible may see what of the Lord Chief Justice, a very obscene poem. book be indictable for obscenity, the Bible should be the first to be of the Lord Chief Justice as to obscenity; there is scarcely one chapter obscene book under the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice? the Lord Chief Justice, since their own sacred book is one of those most id = 46024 author = Beyer, H. Otley (Henry Otley) title = Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines date = keywords = Búgan; Earth; Ifugao; Kabigát; Kiángan; Lumáwig; World; Wígan summary = I shall mention chiefly the Igorot, Bontok, and Ifugao peoples, as The sun gods, and the deities of the sky world in general, occupy the The brother-in-law of Lumáwig said to him: "Create water, because said Lumáwig: "Let us sit down, people, and rest." Then he struck THE RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE IFUGAO PEOPLE OF NORTHERN LUZON [28] BELIEFS AND MYTHS OF THE KIÁNGAN IFUGAOS gods of the Sky World, as we shall see in the myths. Origin of the mountains.--The first son of Wígan, called Kabigát, went from the sky region Húdog to the Earth World to hunt with The peopling of Ifugao land.--Having arrived at Otbóbon, they "Place it in jars on the third day," and he returned to the Sky Búgan, as a being from the Sky World, did not eat like the the people that he must take his son Ovug to the Sky World. id = 34578 author = Bigandet, Paul Ambroise title = The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume I) date = keywords = Ananda; Bodi; Brahmas; Buddha; Buddhism; Buddhists; Burmah; Dewadat; Dzetawon; Gaudama; Kapilawot; Kathaba; King; Maia; Manh; Maukalan; Nats; Neibban; Phralaong; Pounhas; Prince; Radzagio; Rahan; Rahanda; Rathees; Thoodaudana; great; indian; place summary = viz., the epoch or time when a Buddha appears, the place which he time Phralaong became a Buddha, our hermit went to that great master, Buddha moved from that place, and went to the south of the Bodi tree, to truths, is the great work that a Buddha has to perform. Having come to the end of his great meditations,[1] Buddha left this knowledge of the perfect law." Buddha considered a third time, and said Having enjoyed himself in the place Adzapala, Buddha went on towards the Buddha, knowing the four great truths and showing the way to Neibban." Kathaba, surprised, came to Buddha, and said to him, "Great Rahan, the as to prevent the great Rahan from being present." Buddha discovered at the state of Thautapan, said to Gaudama, "Illustrious Buddha, some years light to the place where Buddha was preaching the law. Two days after, he made a great offering to Buddha id = 57764 author = Billings, M. E. title = Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada date = keywords = Adultery; Baptist; Catholic; Chicago; City; Episcopal; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; John; Methodist; Mo.; Mr.; New; Rev.; St.; York summary = Rev. John Williams Rapids, Iowa.; St. swindling, forgery, embezzlement, lying, 1878 Dowling, Rev. Indianapolis, Ind. Adultery with servant girl; caught in act. Rev. Newman Chicago, Ill. Divorced his wife to marry a new love. Morgan, Rev. Floyd Galesburgh, Ill.; Bap. Adultery with many sisters; seduction of many Smith, Rev. Elgin, Ill. Murder of wife, held her under water. Wardner, Rev. Morton or Little Genesee.; Milton, Adv. Adultery, seduction of a lot of young girls; 1881 White, Rev. Little Rock, Ark. Murder, adultery, seduction of a young girl, 1879 Curr, Rev. Alan Dubuque, Iowa.; Bap. Larceny, deserting wife, drunkenness, gross 1878 Dale, Rev., Ev., New Castle, Ill. Immoral assault on two girls, one 12, other 14; 1878 Milligan, Rev. Parker Kansas City, Mo. Adultery, lechery, deserting wife, fled. Starr, Rev. James Peru, Ind. Rape on a little five-year-old girl; caught in Trunnell, Rev. Evan Marion, Ind. Arrested on charge of burning church to get id = 6172 author = Blatchford, Robert title = God and My Neighbour date = keywords = Adam; Bible; Christ; Christianity; Church; David; Father; God; Gospels; Heaven; Infidel; Jahweh; Jesus; Jews; John; King; Lord; Man; Matthew; Moses; Resurrection; Sun; christian summary = I cannot believe that the Bible version of the relations of man and God I do not believe it to contain any divine revelation of God to man. other is the new theory: that the Bible is the work of many men whom God God, called by Christians "Our Heavenly Father," created all things. In the New Testament Christ compares God, as Heavenly Father to Man, to If the success of the Christian religion proves that Christ was God, 3. All Christians believe that Man has sinned and does sin against God. 6. Most Christians believe that Christ was God. Christ is said to be God Himself, come down to win back to Himself Man, Christians accepting the theory of evolution have to believe that God The Christian says God _gave_ Man a will. Man cannot sin against God. Christians speak of the will as if it were a kind of separate soul, a id = 19119 author = Bloomfield, Maurice title = Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea date = keywords = Cerberus; Greek; Hades; Veda; Yama; dog summary = comes the familiar description: Kerberos now has three dog heads, a two dogs of Yama, the dark and the spotted, that guard the road (to road-guarding, man-beholding watch-dogs entrust him, O King Yama, and Therefore (the two dogs of Yama) Çy[=a]ma and Çabala (the dark dogs of Yama are sandwiched in between sun and moon on the one side, the _Atharva-Veda_ says: "The four-eyed dog (the moon) surveys by night both moon and sun by their ancient names and in their capacity as dogs (the sun-dog): "From Çy[=a]ma (the moon) do I resort to Çabala (the two dogs of Yama are, but yet, too, sun and moon. Çy[=a]va), "the black," is the moon dog, and that Çabala, "the spotted, his heaven become Pluto and hell, then, and only then, Yama''s dogs are to another in the myth of Cerberus; that is, the notions of sun and moon id = 30200 author = Bradlaugh, Charles title = Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." date = keywords = Bible; Blount; Bolingbroke; Cartes; Christianity; Church; Collins; Condorcet; Des; Dr.; England; Epicurus; Europe; France; God; Hobbes; John; Lord; Mr.; New; Paine; Paris; Pope; Shelley; Spinoza; St.; Stoics; Testament; Toland; Voltaire; Zeno; history; man; mind; nature; thing summary = imitating that rational and most excellent work of nature, man. nature; the right of all men to all things, being in effect no better God-intoxicated man." We present him a mighty thinker, a master mind, assert that the human mind has not been produced by any natural causes, original nature by accidental causes dependent on the human mind, by the dogmas respecting the origin of the world, the nature of God, the by considering this great principle, _that man receives no ideas but men misname God-ideas, he at the same time admitted the existence of "What is nature," says Seneca, "but God; the divine reason, inherent in they supposed God, with respect to nature, to be, not a co-existing, but our reason, by considering the nature of God and man, and the relation The "System of Nature" was not published during the life-time of Having stated that by "nature" he means the "great whole," our author id = 30206 author = Bradlaugh, Charles title = Humanity''s Gain from Unbelief Reprinted from the "North American Review" of March, 1889 date = keywords = Christianity; Church; England; Old; christian summary = Christianity--like the rejection of the faiths which preceded it--has in directed by the Established Christian Church against Papists and Church of England Christians in New England, escaping from the persecution of Old World Christians, accepted as God''s revelation to man, Christianity has no higher claim Old and New Testaments are forced on the people as part of Christianity; progress and civilisation of the world are due to Christianity; and of slavery, and this because men professing Christianity were What of the effect of Christianity on these powers in the centuries ninth century week Christians sold slaves to the Saracens. In this the Church of England Christians in Demerara were and seventeenth centuries to persecutions by Christians of innocent men, any to which the Christians of the first three centuries were subjected Christian churches, which Acts have only been repealed in consequence of Why, one who does not believe in the Christian religion. id = 36268 author = Bradlaugh, Charles title = Heresy: Its Utility And Morality. A Plea And A Justification date = keywords = Atheism; Bacon; Berkeley; Butler; Church; Descartes; England; France; God; Locke; Luther; Rome; Spinoza; man summary = of heresy between him and the heretic who rejects all churches. ordinary orthodox man is a heretic to every religion in the world except says: "Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, of the existence of God and the nature of the soul, were the chief existence of God and the immortality of the soul, Descartes needed point in his philosophy, than an energetic protest of the human mind idea of God; that a man can be at the same time an Atheist and an honest In this century the English Church lost much of the political power it actually exist." The "Principles of Human Knowledge" is the work in ideas are not in addition to man''s mind; but the aggregate of sensative his argument for a future state of existence, not only to man, but to thought in Europe during the last century than to any other man. id = 36269 author = Bradlaugh, Charles title = A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays date = keywords = Abraham; Adam; David; Deity; Devil; Dr.; Egypt; England; Esau; Gillespie; God; Heaven; Isaac; Jacob; Jesus; Jews; John; Jonah; Lord; Luke; Matthew; Moses; Mr.; Peter; Satan; Saul; Theist; man summary = walked in his ways to do only that which was right in the sight of God. The Philistines rejected the traitor''s aid, and saved David from the this is the family of the man "who walked in God''s ways all the days of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." It is true, Abraham owned slaves, was not God never did tempt any man at any time, but he "did tempt Abraham" to Christian body affirm that Jesus was God incarnate on earth, the It was Simon Peter who, having told Jesus he was the Son of God, was the words "thou shalt surely die" were spoken by God to man. exists independently; but it can not be caused by God, as in that case others: that man can do no good of himself or without God''s aid, but yet that each man has a free will; that God is all-powerful, but that few id = 20248 author = Brooks, David Marshall title = The Necessity of Atheism date = keywords = Bible; Christianity; Church; Devil; Egypt; England; Europe; God; Hebrews; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; Labor; Lord; Martian; Mohammed; Moses; New; Old; Paul; Pope; Prophet; Rome; St.; Testament; belief; christian; jewish; man; mind; religion; religious; time summary = In each age man creates his god, in his own image, and within the The Christians, accepting the Old Testament as a book dictated by God, informed that Christianity is _the_ religion of God, that Allah made the ages primitive man ascribed all diseases either to the wrath of God, or The religionist replies that man''s mind cannot fathom the will of God. Which is an irrational statement for it is a well established fact, and more to wean religious and God-fearing men and women from the old little time on the question of the existence and nature of God and the on God and more on the world, man, morals, and the conditions of social that as the mind of man expands, it does not discover new gods, but that A Christian will admit that the gods of others are man-made, and that The creeds of the churches contain conceptions of God''s nature and of id = 30750 author = Brown, Sanger title = The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races: An Interpretation date = keywords = Ancient; Egypt; Greece; India; Indians; Knight; Priapus; Worship; primitive summary = III Sun Myths, Mysteries and Decadent Sex Worship 69 have observed evidences of sex worship among the primitive races of that In _Ancient Sex Worship_ we read, "As the male genital organs were held the Chinese deities of sex, are also worshipped in the form of serpents, writers upon certain forms and symbols, and at the same time we have Serpent worship has been shown by many writers to be a form of sex universal serpent worship of primitive man was a form of phallicism so SUN MYTHS, MYSTERIES AND DECADENT SEX WORSHIP sex worship we are able to observe how an important motive in the race Just as in the most primitive form of sex worship we saw that It has been stated that sex worship, as practiced during the primitive Nature worship developed first, but much of its symbolism How is the motive expressed in sex worship a part of id = 20233 author = Buchanan, James title = Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws date = keywords = Atheism; Certitude; Christianity; Church; Comte; Creator; Divine; Dr.; God; Holyoake; Lord; Materialism; Matter; Mr.; Natural; Nature; Pantheism; Philosophy; Providence; Revelation; Science; Spinoza; Theology; christian; law; man; mind; religion; scripture; system; theory summary = living, intelligent, personal God. As Atheism has appeared in several distinct forms, it is necessary to which Nature affords of the being, perfections, and providence of God. Our Lord explained in a single sentence the whole Philosophy of life by natural causes, in so far as it is founded on the present law development by established natural laws, Divine agency is still equally necessary, as the natural result of the great law of human progress, it is the God of Pantheism,--Nature, including matter and mind, but philosophy respecting God, Nature, and Man. Here, if anywhere, is a respecting the existence of a living, personal God, distinct from Nature the existence of mind, or of any spiritual Power distinct from Nature The existence of "natural laws," and the operation of "second causes," peculiar properties and powers, and also of natural laws, as God''s believe they are, really subject both to natural laws and to God''s id = 11277 author = Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir title = Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life date = keywords = Ani; B.C.; Book; Egyptians; God; Horus; Isis; Nut; Osiris; Papyrus; Set; Sun; Temu; Thoth; footnote; thou summary = 150.] we have: "Thou hast received the form (_or_ attribute) of God, and 4. "When thou makest an offering unto thy God, guard thou against the "God is the hidden Being, and no man hath known His form. art the ruler of all the gods, and thou hast joy of heart within thy five gods, Osiris, Horus, Set, Isis, and Nephthys, were born on the days called the "king of the gods." The ideas held concerning Osiris at this 9. "Homage to thee, O creator of the gods, thou king of the South and thy members, and the company of the gods make acclamations unto thee. goddess Nut, thy mother, who gave birth to the gods, brought thee "Homage to thee; O my divine father Osiris, thou hast thy being with thing worshipped by the Egyptians; Horus was the Sun-god, like R[=a], The Great God hath given my head unto me, id = 9411 author = Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir title = Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations date = keywords = Behutet; Bekhten; Boat; Egypt; Egyptians; Heru; Horus; Isis; Khensu; Lord; Majesty; Nile; North; Osiris; Prince; Set; Shu; South; Thoth; Typhon; god summary = strong in the power of her spells, said: "Flow, poison, come out of Ra. Eye of Horus, come out of Ra, and shine outside his mouth. "Two Men," Horus and Set. A great fight took place, the enemies of Ra Hep), the Nile-god, Shu, Keb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, and Horus. with the words "Horus is bitten." The heir of heaven, the son of UnNefer, the child of the gods, he who was wholly fair, is bitten! for which reason he is called "Great god, lord of heaven," unto this colours, came in the form of the great Winged Disk to the Boat of RaHarmachis, and Thoth said unto Ra, "O Lord of the gods, Behutet hath And Ra said unto Horus of Heben, "O Winged Disk, thou great god Anqet, Hap (the Nile-god), Shu, Keb, Nut, Osiris, Horus, Isis, and And Isis, the goddess, said: "O Thoth, great things [are in] thy heart, id = 9914 author = Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir title = The Babylonian Legends of the Creation date = keywords = Anu; Creation; Kingu; Marduk; Tablet; Tiâmat; footnote; god summary = of Creation; (2) a text describing the fight between the "Gods and the Legend was the glorification of the god Marduk, the son of Ea version of the Legend already referred to the great god of creation The helpers of Tiâmat were placed by her under the command of a god gods was called, and Ea induced his son, Marduk to be present. of learning, Marduk of Babylon, the great national god of Babylonia, When Marduk had arranged heaven and earth, and had established the gods In reply the gods named Kingu, Tiâmat''s second husband, "''Marduk, your son, the envoy of the gods, hath set out. "''Marduk, your son, the envoy of the gods, hath set out. Tiâmat and Marduk, the envoy of the gods, roused themselves, He (i.e., Marduk) made the gods his fathers to take their Let [man] rejoice in Marduk, the Lord of the Gods, id = 3327 author = Bulfinch, Thomas title = Bulfinch''s Mythology: The Age of Fable date = keywords = Achilles; Apollo; Athens; Bacchus; Baldur; Cupid; Diana; Egypt; Greece; Greeks; Hector; Hercules; Jove; Juno; Jupiter; King; Loki; Medea; Mercury; Minerva; Neptune; Odin; Pan; Perseus; Pheidias; Pluto; Psyche; Rome; Sibyl; Thebes; Theseus; Thor; Trojans; Troy; Ulysses; Venus; Zeus; come; god; great; like; roman summary = Jupiter was king of gods and men. Mars (Ares), the god of war, was the son of Jupiter and Juno. Cupid (Eros), the god of love, was the son of Venus. not safe in his friend''s house; and sons-in-law and fathers-inlaw, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, could not trust Like him the river-god, whose waters flow, turned round to see whether it was a god or a sea-animal, and said, "Maiden, I am no monster, nor a sea-animal, but a god; and celebrate thee, my song shall tell thy fate, and thou shalt She received the dead body of her son, and folded the cold form said to my men, ''What god there is concealed in that form I know Origin of Mythology Statues of Gods and Goddesses Poets of The gods took up the dead body and bore it to the sea-shore where id = 46063 author = Bulfinch, Thomas title = The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch''s "Age of Fable" (1855) date = keywords = Achilles; Adonis; Apollo; Ariadne; B.C.; Bacchus; Balder; Baumeister; Commentary; Cupid; Death; Diana; English; FIG; Greece; Greek; Hades; Heaven; Hector; Helen; Hercules; Homer; Iliad; Jove; Juno; Jupiter; King; Lang; London; Lost; Marble; Mars; Mercury; Metam; Milton; Minerva; Morris; Mount; Museum; Neptune; Odyssey; Olympus; Ovid; Painting; Pan; Paradise; Paris; Perseus; Prometheus; Proserpine; Psyche; Rome; Shakespeare; Thebes; Theseus; Thomas; Thor; Trojan; Troy; Ulysses; Vase; Venus; Vulcan; Zeus; illustration; myth; Æneas summary = Love who should rule the hearts of gods and men. Mars (Ares)=,[26] the war-god, son of Jupiter and Juno. Vulcan (Hephæstus)=, son of Jupiter and Juno, was the god of fire, glorious, good-natured god, loved and honored among men as the founder the Greeks; but the golden god Apollo chose first to spend a year in 1. _Cupid (Eros)_, small but mighty god of love, the son of Venus and the father of gods and men, and bore him the Hours, goddesses who order of gods; so also, another goddess of the earth, _Rhea_, the wife Bacchus (Dionysus)=, the god of wine, was the son of Jupiter and the gods'' dwelling, steep Olympus, and sat beside Jupiter, son Apollo, the Light Triumphant.= Soon after his birth the sun-god little child, Hector''s loved son, like unto a beautiful star. Death from thy head, and with the gods in heaven id = 4925 author = Bulfinch, Thomas title = The Age of Fable date = keywords = Achilles; Aeneas; Apollo; Arthur; Athens; Bacchus; Baldur; Cadmus; Cupid; Diana; Greece; Greeks; Hector; Hercules; Italy; Jove; Juno; Jupiter; King; Loki; Minerva; Mount; Neptune; Odin; Pluto; Priam; Psyche; Rome; Scylla; Sea; Sibyl; Sun; Thebes; Theseus; Thor; Trojan; Troy; Ulysses; Venus; chapter; footnote; god; grecian; like; roman summary = In "Stories of Gods and Heroes," "King Arthur and His Knights" and names] ), though called the father of gods and men, had himself a Jupiter was king of gods and men. Mars (Ares), the god of war, was the son of Jupiter and Juno. god of the sun, as Diana, his sister, was the goddess of the moon. Cupid (Eros), the god of love, was the son of Venus. Bacchus (Dionysus), the god of wine, was the son of Jupiter and not safe in his friend''s house; and sons-in-law and fathers-inlaw, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, could not trust one and, ready to sink, she calls upon her father, the river god: when young Actaeon, son of King Cadmus, thus addressed the youths Like him the river god, whose waters flow, Achilles," he said, "of thy own father, full of days like me, and id = 4928 author = Bulfinch, Thomas title = Bulfinch''s Mythology date = keywords = Achilles; Aeneas; Angelica; Apollo; Arthur; Astolpho; Bayard; Bohort; Bradamante; Britain; Charlemagne; Charles; Charlot; Diana; Duke; Emperor; England; France; Galahad; Gawain; Geraint; God; Greece; Greeks; Guenever; Heaven; Hector; Hercules; Huon; Ireland; Isoude; Italy; Juno; Jupiter; Kay; King; Launcelot; Loki; Lord; Merlin; Minerva; Neptune; Ogier; Orlando; Owain; Paris; Perceval; Queen; Rinaldo; Rogero; Round; Saracen; Sir; Thor; Tristram; Trojan; Troy; Ulysses; Venus; chapter; footnote; roman summary = In "Stories of Gods and Heroes," "King Arthur and His Knights" and fellow," said King Arthur, "canst thou bring me there where this "Sir knight," said Arthur, "for what cause must die." "That were shame unto thee," said Sir Launcelot; "thou thou canst." "Alas!" said Sir Launcelot, "that ever a knight white knight, and said, "Sir, thou fightest wonderful well, as Sir Tristram, he ran unto him, and took him by the hand, and said, King Arthur made Sir Tristram knight of the Table Round with great it shall never be said, in court, or among good knights, that Sir you, fair lords." Then the old man said unto King Arthur, "Sir, I "Come forth," said Arthur, "if thou darest, and I promise thee I But when the year was passed, King Arthur and Sir Gawain came with acts of the said King Arthur, and of his noble Knights of the id = 10684 author = Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell) title = A History of Freedom of Thought date = keywords = Bible; Catholics; Christianity; Church; England; English; Europe; France; Germany; God; Inquisition; Pope; Roman; State; Testament; christian; history; reason; religion summary = how, when public opinion was formed by the views of such men, thought thinking, to train reason to look upon the universe in new ways and to [51] of freedom of thought, religious liberty, toleration, had not been Christians had claimed toleration on the ground that religious belief is the Church introduced into the public law of Europe the new principle to reconcile the old religion with new ideas; but the general tendency religion, and the author surveys the history of Christianity to show the a relatively tolerant spirit prevailed among the Christian sects and new In the German States the history of religious liberty differs in many on the question whether the Deity of natural religion �the God whose there are more gods than one, or shall deny the Christian religion to be the publication of an anti-Christian work, The Age of Reason (1794 and id = 2513 author = Butler, Samuel title = God the Known and God the Unknown date = keywords = God; Life; Spirit; idea; man; person; thing summary = I will then indicate the Living and Personal God about whose existence this God who has called man and all other living forms, whether animals For we have so long associated the word "God" with the idea of a Living attempt to make us imagine God as a Person who does not fulfil [sic] the minds the idea of a living person with all its inevitable limitations. us a conception of God, it raises no ideas in our minds of a person or rooted belief in God as a Living Person originate? a Living God who is the Spirit and the Life of all that is, and who is a God and the Life of the World are like a mountain, which soul of this person is the Spirit of God, and its body-for we know of no Personal God in the world, yet could not demonstrate this existence, and id = 38377 author = Carlile, Richard title = The Character of a Priest date = keywords = nature; priest summary = Nature pregnant with equality, with justice, and generosity, has given operations of Nature, the physical laws of men and of morality are universal laws; man forms an integral part of Nature, and must act in the power the Priests enjoy, are acquired by hypocrisy, by perjury, It is by inflexible truth, by the invariable laws of Nature, that the intelligent man among the whole body of Priests; bigots by education, God, acting always through Nature, always by universal other Priest, and all differ from the truth; the Deity does not operate more the Priests profess to believe, the greater is the iniquity, The people should believe the Priests when they profess principles consistent with Nature, and scorn them: when they the people had sufficient sense they would treat all Priests as All the Priests--all that live by the trade of hypocrisy, all that live id = 40211 author = Carlile, Richard title = Church Reform The Only Means to That End, Stated in a Letter to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of the Treasury date = keywords = Christ; Christian; Church; God; Lord; New; Testament; Trinity; knowledge; lordship summary = instructed to allow that the general body of dissenters from the Church present mystery of the Christian Church. and a proving people are necessary to make a Church of Christ. The present state of the Church is, that it is a theatre of mystery, useful exhortation; for revelation of knowledge, or mind, or reason; ministry of the Church more afraid of knowledge than of the people''s Man''s knowledge of existence is of a twofold nature: the things that the mysterious doctrine of the Christian Church, in this way; and I am knowledge of Christ, which is not now in the Church, nor yet among any every Church; the mystery would not pass on the people without them. The mystery of the existing Church, in all its grades of dissent, having The true meaning of Church, is STATE OF MIND. Give the people knowledge in their Churches, and id = 1561 author = Carpenter, Edward title = Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning date = keywords = Attis; Bough; Bull; Christianity; Church; Dionysus; Earth; God; Golden; Greek; Isis; Jesus; Lamb; Lord; Magic; Man; Mithra; Mysteries; Osiris; Savior; Spirit; Sun; Temple; Virgin; animal; christian; great; life; nature; religion; self; time; tribe; world summary = primitive Man should name his Tribe after an animal or object of nature (1) The fact that the Tribe was one of the early things for which Man cults the gods are represented by human figures with animal heads. naturally out of the human mind when brought face to face with Life chapters about the unity of the Animals (and Early Man) with Nature, and primitive life of humanity, in so far as it is not purely animal, is of a divinized animal, but the flesh of a human-formed god--as in the forces of nature by victims, human or animal, sacrifices, ceremonies of world and of human nature; and therefore to separate it from Religion to a God-man who gives his life and blood for the people; and he a great World-religion coming down the centuries from the remotest times also from an Animism by which man recognizes in general Nature his id = 18222 author = Carter, Jesse Benedict title = The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome date = keywords = Apollo; Augustus; B.C.; Diana; Greece; Hercules; Italy; Juppiter; Mars; R.F.; R.R.; Rome; Sibylline; god; greek; roman summary = contrasting the original deities of Rome with the new foreign gods, Rome was not yet a god of the state and politics, but merely the so in old Roman religion some phase of a god''s activity, expressed in an gods, and with no desire to introduce rival deities, that the new cults the course of time the Roman state acknowledged this Tivoli cult of of foreign gods had begun to exist for the Romans, in the good old days were taken into the cult of the Roman state, were given temples in the the goddess Diana into the state-cult of Rome, where she was brought Poseidon to Rome he was identified with an old Roman water-god these temples were erected were really Greek gods under Roman names. Now that the old Roman gods had been changed into new-fangled Greek of family worship old Roman religion was dead. id = 13433 author = Cassels, Walter Richard title = A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot''s Essays, by the Author of "Supernatural religion" date = keywords = Antioch; Diatessaron; Dr.; Epistles; Eusebius; Gospel; Greek; Ibid; Ignatius; John; Lightfoot; Matthew; Papias; Review; Rome; St.; Tatian; Westcott summary = the evidence of the presbyters quoted by Irenaeus in our Gospels, refers impossible to show that the four (Gospels) were current as early as A.D. 150," refers to this passage, and says: "It is precarious to infer with fourth Gospel, which Dr. Westcott represents as "certain references" argument, and I consider that every point yet objected to by Dr. Lightfoot, or indicated by Dr. Westcott, might be withdrawn without at lost works contained any evidence for the Gospels, they actually did not to discover what evidence actually exists in the works of early writers the epistle has upon the evidence for the existence of the Gospels and In a note Dr. Lightfoot states that my references to Lipsius are to his earlier works, Luke, Gospel according to, supposed reference to it in Epistle of Vienne his work, 22; references of Eusebius to him, 54 ff.; words of id = 37231 author = Cassels, Walter Richard title = Supernatural Religion, Vol. 1 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date = keywords = Christianity; Church; Divine; Dr.; Epistle; Eusebius; God; Gospel; Greek; Hebrews; Hegesippus; Ignatius; Jesus; John; Justin; Lightfoot; Lord; Luke; Mark; Matthew; Memoirs; Mozley; New; Papias; Peter; Rome; Testament; Westcott; apostle; christian; miracle summary = mere existence of the book quoted, at the time that work was written, proposition "harmless" in reference to its bearing on miracles, as Dr. Farrar evidently supposes, but merely in opposition to the character of evidence of the Gospel miracles is a special case which must be decided It could scarcely be otherwise, for in point of fact the Gospel miracles evidence regarding the alleged facts entitling the Gospel Miracles to Gospels, but actually quote passages from unknown sources, or sayings a written source different from our Gospels, but in either case the fact Gospel, Justin clearly marks it by [--Greek--], there is every reason that Justin quotes the passage from a Gospel different from ours. of the source of Justin''s quotations with our Gospels is placed by the Justin''s Gospel, as the words, "so far as saying other critics that Justin refers to a Gospel according to Peter, or id = 37232 author = Cassels, Walter Richard title = Supernatural Religion, Vol. 2 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date = keywords = Apocalypse; Apostle; Canon; Christ; Church; Epistle; Father; God; Gospel; Irenæus; Jesus; John; Justin; Logos; Lord; Luke; Marcion; New; Old; Paul; Peter; Son; Synoptics; Testament; Valentinus; Westcott summary = of sayings of Jesus and of Gospel history, which are generally placed as ''Scripture,'' and clear references to the Gospels of St. Luke and St. John, to 1 Corinthians, perhaps also to the Epistle to the Hebrews, and regard to the last passage that Jesus merely uses the words of the Old from such a passage the use of the fourth Gospel.(5) Even Tischendorf statement in the fourth Gospel turns, but uses a totally different word, of John''s express declaration in the fourth Gospel, that Jesus is the Gospel, and the few who do refer to the passage merely mention, in Now the passages pointed out as references to the fourth Gospel, it will the author of the fourth Gospel, had he been the Apostle John, could not the author of the fourth Gospel, had he been the Apostle John, could not Son of God." (3) The fourth Gospel, instead of representing Jesus as id = 37233 author = Cassels, Walter Richard title = Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date = keywords = Acts; Christ; Christianity; Christians; Church; Epistle; Gentiles; God; Gospel; Holy; James; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; Lord; Luke; Messiah; New; Paul; Peter; Resurrection; Spirit; Testament; act; apostle; jewish summary = both the Epistles of Paul and the Acts of the Apostles.(4) course, centres in the two representative Apostles, Peter and Paul, who ascribed to the Apostle Paul, we find him represented in the Acts as episodes of the Acts, we are enabled by the words of the apostle Paul suppose that the speech was heard and reported by the Apostle Paul of the unknown author with the distinct statements of the Apostle Paul. narrative of the Acts actually represents Paul as going up to Jerusalem In the Acts, Paul is represented as being with the Apostles the word of the Gospel and believe, Paul singles out Peter as specially visit of the Apostle of the Gentiles to Jerusalem, and Paul''s account is Paul had been the active Apostle of the Gentiles, preaching his Gospel the Paul of the Acts be considered specially an Apostle of the id = 2510 author = Chamberlain, Basil Hall title = The Invention of a New Religion date = keywords = Imperial; Japan; Shinto; japanese; new summary = The Japanese are, it is true, commonly said to be an irreligious people. Mikado-worship and Japan-worship--for that is the new Japanese good to the outer world the new claim that Japan differs in no essential Japanese literati, who loved to dwell on the contrast between Japan''s antiquity, the origins of Japanese history are recent as compared countries; while at the same time the Japanese nation, sharing to some Japanese history shows that the great feudal houses, so far from The new Japanese religion consists, in its present early stage, of Japan is as far superior to the common ruck of nations as the Mikado is early history-books record the fact that Japan was created first, while according to which, as already noted, the whole Japanese nation is, in a investigators vis-a-vis Japan differs entirely from that of Japanese The classic instance of the invention of a new national religion is id = 30306 author = Cohen, Chapman title = Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development date = keywords = Christian; Christianity; Church; Dr.; England; Europe; God; James; Jesus; Primitive; Professor; Satan; Sir; St.; belief; case; fact; history; life; man; mind; religion; religious; social; state; woman summary = conditions of primitive culture amid which he believes religious ideas religious life belong to a world of inner experience, to a state of called "a strong religious nature" possesses some quality of mind absent normal social feelings exploited in the interests of the religious idea. A description of the states of mind of religious people, spiritual experience is determined by the pre-existing religious belief. of a religious kind, with the result that adolescent human nature is an enquiry as to how far the religious theory of human nature rests upon The connection between sexual feeling and religious belief is ancient, Between religious beliefs and sexual feelings the connection is, relations between primitive religious beliefs and the sexual life, and THE INFLUENCE OF SEXUAL AND PATHOLOGIC STATES ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF of these cases the acceptance of sexual feeling for religious with religion, exist in connection with non-religious phases of life. id = 36882 author = Cohen, Chapman title = A Grammar of Freethought date = keywords = Christianity; Church; Freethinker; Freethought; God; Mr.; Schiller; Sir; State; belief; chapter; christian; fact; human; life; man; nature; religion; religious; social; world summary = One of the largest facts in the history of man is religion. This outgrowing of religion is no new thing in human history. marks of social life--the houses in which man lives, the machines he physical aspect of life, and represent the determining forces of social member of a social group man is dominated by his ideas of things, and the general body of the social forces the question of religious the idea of God, shows that so soon as man discovers the natural causes other things equal, one man without religion is greater evidential value that human nature can get on with religion, but the one case proves that relation to this life human nature would be without meaning or value. of self-sacrifice, but because man being an expression of social life is How little the Christian religion appreciates the nature of morality is id = 2395 author = Colum, Padraic title = The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles date = keywords = Admetus; Argo; Argonauts; Fleece; Golden; Heracles; Iolcus; Jason; King; Medea; Pelias; Theseus; Zeus summary = So Pelias said, and Jason went with the guards and the crowd of people, youths of Iolcus went with the heroes who had come from the different "Heroes of the quest," said Jason, "we have come aboard the great ship They came into King Phineus''s hall, their bright swords in their hands. A day came when Heracles left the Argo and went on the Lemnian land. great soft hand of the Titan, and he said, "O Epimetheus, Father Zeus Medea turned away from her father''s eyes, and went to her chamber. Jason, carrying his shield and spear, went before the king. As the Argonauts came near they saw what looked to them like Then the king mounted his chariot; Medea went with him, and they came As he looked from the tower he saw the king come forth with arms in his Then it so happened that Heracles came into the palace of the king. id = 30126 author = Conant, J. E. (Judson Eber) title = The Church, the Schools and Evolution date = keywords = Bible; Christ; Church; Dr.; God; Word; evolution; scripture; truth summary = accept it as their function to study and teach scientific truth, as God has the Bible as it came from God to man was "truth unmixed with error," with has always believed and received the Bible as the inerrant Word of God, not know the =spiritual truths= of the Bible, they are utterly unscientific if his reasonings about the Word of God in the place of simple faith in that believer, in the attitude of faith toward God, =sees= the interpretation of in the light of spiritual truth all the facts of the natural realm. of spiritual truth by sincere "repentance toward God" and "faith toward our spiritual truth, the man of scientific mind will be willing to work by primacy to the spiritual realm by interpreting natural truth in its light. can accept the theory of evolution and the doctrine of an inerrant Bible at id = 37700 author = Cooper, Robert, secularist title = Biblical Extracts; Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing Its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities date = keywords = David; God; Israel; Jacob; Jesus; Lord; Mary; Moses; man summary = Lord said unto me, Behold I have put my words in thy mouth. And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, And God came unto Balaam, and said, _What men are these with thee?_ Then saith the Lord unto Moses, Behold I will rain bread from heaven Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy And the Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said unto them, thus saith the Lord God of Israel, put And he said unto them, thus saith the Lord God of Israel, put And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, _thou id = 46118 author = Craigie, William A. (William Alexander), Sir title = The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia date = keywords = Frey; Iceland; Norway; Odin; Sweden; Thor; religion; scandinavian summary = THE GREAT GODS: THOR AND ODIN THE GREAT GODS: THOR AND ODIN hold local assemblies on the day named after the god; in Iceland this god, on which account he was called Thorolf (=_Thor-wolf_). The prominent place held by the worship of Thor in the old religion is Having thus made the position of Thor among the Scandinavian gods evidence for a general worship of Odin in Norway or Iceland. if they reached Sweden, or to Thor and Odin if they got to Iceland.'' temple, image, or special priest of Odin in any part of Iceland. this view Thor was originally the chief god, and to a certain extent to Frey''s temple, taking with him an old ox, and addressed the god the heathen gods.'' The prominence here given to sacred places appears Images of Thor are also frequently referred to in the Icelandic sagas. id = 43681 author = Crooke, William title = The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2) date = keywords = Baiga; Bengal; Bhairon; Bhût; Bombay; Brâhman; Campbell; Central; Dalton; Deo; Devî; District; Folk; Ganges; Gazetteer; Himâlayan; Hindu; India; Mirzapur; Mother; Mr.; Northern; Notes; Oudh; Panjâb; Pîr; Queries; Report; Râja; Satî; Siva; Sîtalâ; Tales; drâvidian; north; province; western; worship summary = last class worshipped an image of the sun formed in the mind. Among the Drâvidian races, along the Central Indian hills, Sun-worship placed in the sacred water jar; the image of the snake god, stamped The worship of Mother Earth assumes many varied forms. Among the Drâvidian races of Central India earth-worship prevails Kharwârs worship her at the village shrine before wood-cutting and But besides these water spirits and local river gods, the Hindus very obscure form of local worship, that of the Great Mothers. Worship of Gansâm Deo. We now come to consider some divinities special to the Drâvidian this day the belief in the origin of disease from spirit possession man, woman, child, or cattle is caused either by an evil spirit or is worshipped by the house-mother, but only cold food or cold water the worship done at the shrine of the village godling by the teacher, id = 43682 author = Crooke, William title = The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2) date = keywords = Bengal; Bombay; Brâhman; Campbell; Central; Dalton; Europe; Evil; Eye; Frazer; Gazetteer; Hindu; India; Katha; London; Mirzapur; Mr.; Northern; Notes; Panjâb; Popular; Primitive; Queries; Report; Râja; Sarit; Settlement; Sâgara; Tales; Tawney; Vishnu; brand; descriptive; ethnology; folk; history; north; observation; province summary = superstitions of the people of India, and at the present day it forms First comes the custom of placing the dying man on the ground at the a resting-place for the spirit of the dead man, so that it may no The fly here represents the spirit, an idea very common in folk-lore, High-caste Hindu women worship the Pîpal tree in the form of Vasudeva The Nîm tree is also connected with snake worship, as its leaves New Year''s Day it is considered essential for every Hindu to worship The number of these trees and plants which scare evil spirits or are Snake-worship appears constantly in history and legend. In the folk-tales, Naravâhanadatta worships snakes in a grove sacred to said, keeps down the ghost of the dead man, and is often a place in Another idea appearing in tiger-worship is that he eats human flesh, In modern times dog-worship appears specially in connection with the id = 22213 author = Cumont, Franz Valery Marie title = The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism date = keywords = Alexandria; Asia; Attis; CIL; Christianity; Cybele; Die; Egypt; God; Greece; Greek; Inscr; Isis; Italy; Jupiter; Minor; Mithra; Mon; Mother; Occident; Orient; Osiris; Paris; Rev.; Revue; Rome; Serapis; Syria; VIII; christian; egyptian; latin; oriental; persian; phrygian; religion; roman; semitic summary = 202.--Roman Paganism Become Oriental, 204.--Mysteries, 205.--Nature Greek and Roman religions by {xiii} Gruppe, Farnell, and Wissowa, in the Christianity the Oriental mysteries at Rome remained for a long time beliefs of the ancient Orient, as for instance the ideas of Persian dualism how the pagan religions from the Orient aided the long continued effort of our knowledge of the Oriental religions in the Roman empire? Greek and Latin mythographers on the subject of foreign divinities like the religions because they were received by the Greek world as early as the Why was this Egyptian worship the only one of all Oriental religions to before the second century, at the time the worship of the god Heaven assumed by the pagan idea of God. In this matter Syria was Rome''s teacher time dates the appearance in literature of the anti-gods ([Greek: world and the influence of its ideas remained long after the religion id = 33049 author = Dawson, John William, Sir title = The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science date = keywords = America; Asia; B.C.; Bible; Creator; Eden; Egypt; Europe; Footnote; Genesis; God; Greek; Job; Lord; Mosaic; Moses; Mr.; Sabbath; Septuagint; animal; biblical; creation; day; earth; great; hebrew; man; nature; period; scripture; semitic; time; turanian summary = general character and object of the references to nature and creation Creation, before man was upon the earth, God contemplates his work and God, heaven, time, life, were to them existences stretching The argument is not, "God worked on six natural days, and rested on "new heavens and new earth," which remains for the people of God. But supposing that the inspired writer intended to say that the world appearance_ of each great natural type in the animal and vegetable geological ages in time; but it is probable that each great creative represents the knowledge of nature that existed at a time probably ages before the creation of man or the existing animals. 4. Though the general history of animal life in time bears a certain established fact that the period of the appearance of man was a time give us long periods for the probable existence of the earth, though id = 42466 author = Dawson, John William, Sir title = Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief date = keywords = Age; Agnosticism; Creator; FIG; God; Haeckel; animal; form; illustration; low; man; nature; science; time summary = material and vital difference, depending on the nature of man himself. monistic doctrine necessarily implies that man, the animal, the plant, facts and the history of animals in geological time affords many existed, from which all the many-celled animals, man included, the derivation of man from the lower animals, remains to be seen. evidence of monistic evolution; and if we deny its animal nature, we great group a succession of new forms, distinct as species, but not fact, the differences between man and any other animal are so wide they place man on an entirely different plane from the lower animals. difference between man and the lower animals as is the elevation of animals more nearly related to man then existed, and the condition of intelligence of lower animals, so harmonizes with natural laws that more dissociate the mind of man from nature than from his own animal id = 25975 author = Denton, William title = The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science: A Discourse date = keywords = America; Bible; God; Noah; ark; thousand summary = According to the account, in less than two thousand years after God had Why should the beasts, birds, and creeping things be destroyed? do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein this ark were to be taken two of every sort of living thing, and of clean beasts and of birds seven of every sort, male and female, and food Noah, his family, and the animals, went in seven days before this time, and left the ark the six hundred and first year of Noah''s life, the least, three thousand animals feeding upon flesh; and, if we calculate insects necessary to supply the world after the deluge? kind of bird were to be taken into the ark, no less than one thousand these animals!_ Nearly all would require food and water once a day, and thousand feet high; the flood prevailed one hundred and fifty days, and id = 1185 author = Draper, John William title = History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science date = keywords = A.D.; Alexander; Alexandria; Aristotle; Asia; Christianity; Church; Council; Egypt; Empire; Europe; France; God; Holy; Inquisition; Italy; Jews; Mohammed; Museum; Nature; Newton; Reformation; Rome; Saracens; Spain; St.; Syria; christian; great; greek; italian; persian; roman; science; scripture; time summary = point in dispute had respect to the nature of God. It involved the rise controversy arose respecting the age of the world, the Church insisting and the straits of Gibraltar, and the relations of the Euxine Sea. He composed a complete system of the earth, in three books--physical, mention of days, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. attributes of God; in the West, on the relations and life of man. At this time, as we have seen, the Christian Church, through the of the world: first, a personal God existing apart, and a human soul Scriptural view that the Earth is only six thousand years the universe, considered as one great whole, is God." These are ideas Every age, from the second century to our times, has offered men of infuses faith has given man''s soul the light of reason, and God cannot id = 14867 author = Ellinwood, Frank F. (Frank Field) title = Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 date = keywords = Africa; Brahmans; Buddha; Buddhism; Christianity; Church; Divine; East; Footnote; Gautama; God; Gospel; Hindu; Hinduism; India; Islam; Jesus; Koran; Krishna; Manu; Mohammed; Mr.; Müller; New; Old; Paul; Plato; Professor; Spirit; Testament; Vishnu; christian; man; religion summary = Christian religion; all of which think they serve God aright; and expect power in Christianity is God''s unspeakable love to men in Christ; and sacred bibles of the races, called on Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and judgment against those who rejected the clear message of God''s own Son. The man who goes forth to the great mission fields with the feeling that Men had begun to ask themselves the great questions of human life and later day "the same God, worshipped alike by Hindus and Christians, undesigned tribute to the great Christian doctrine of a divine and human [Footnote 78: In an enumeration of Hindu gods made in Buddha''s time even who claim to be Christians regard the various religions of men as the Jewish and Christian faith, with its old Testament names of God, its divine sympathizer in human form, a living and helpful god among men. id = 15968 author = English, George Bethune title = The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old date = keywords = Christianity; Christians; David; God; Isaiah; Israel; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; John; Law; Lord; Matthew; Messiah; Moses; New; Old; Paul; Testament; jewish summary = New Testament endeavour to prove Christianity from the Old. Chapter II. the Old; and Jesus of Nazareth is the person said in the New Jesus himself is represented as proving the truth of Christianity of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and DAVID hand, the prophet said (see the chapter,) �The Lord shall give you the prophecies of the Old Testament were really fulfilled in Jesus, prophecies--�The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,� &c.--Gen. xlix.; and this--�Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people,�� Jesus is the Messiah of the Old Testament; and those of our readers ix.:--�He shall speak peace to the nations.� Jesus says he came to Again, �Upon you (says Jesus to the Jews) shall come all the Old Testament, I shall endeavour to prove by several arguments. Messiah in the Old Testament, no miracles can prove Jesus to be the id = 19879 author = English, George Bethune title = Five Pebbles from the Brook date = keywords = Christians; David; Everett; God; Israel; Jehovah; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; Lord; Messiah; Mr.; New; Old; Testament; jewish summary = beginning of the second chapter of his book, "and which Mr. English supposes to be predicted in the Old Testament, is ''a have been the Messiah, that "the Lord God shall give unto him the know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. to her mother in-law "thy people shall be my people." Will Mr. Everett look a little farther to the 1 Sam. ch. "They shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I Shall I proceed to the consideration of some little arguments of Mr. Everett against the intended perpetuity of the Mosaic law derived Jehovah at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of people, and give ear unto me O, my nation: for a law shall [i.e. the Messiah,] shall speak peace unto the nations: and his that I am Jehovah, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified id = 36772 author = Fielding, H. (Harold) title = The Hearts of Men date = keywords = Buddha; Buddhism; Burman; CHAPTER; Christ; Christianity; Christians; East; England; God; Hindu; Jews; Law; West; faith; life; people; religion summary = with their religion full of beautiful conceptions and ideas--all people Christian world at least--as true, that everyone, men as well as women, been a great belief, that has led man captive, has come from the East. religions profess to tell men these things, surely somewhere there will the people progressed so did their ideas of God. It seemed to the man lying on his hillside easy to follow how it all greater man, a God. He lives in the heavens, for His voice comes from and five hundred years ago, and that of the man God of the Christians Some people make it a great part of their religion just as prayer--_i.e._, the theories of God. No strongly religious man can reason about his own faith. And even if great art be allied to religion, deep religious feeling does quite know why one people includes one emotion in religion and another id = 1061 author = Fiske, John title = Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology date = keywords = Achilleus; Aryan; Baring; Devil; Footnote; Gladstone; Gould; Herakles; Hermes; Hindu; Homeric; Iliad; Indra; Max; Mr.; Muller; Odysseus; Panis; Sanskrit; Sculloge; Sun; Tell; Tylor; Veda; Vol; Zeus; greek; like; man; myth; story summary = stories, like the words, are related collaterally, having descended from worked like our own, and when they spoke of the far-darting sun-god, Aryan mind the howling wind was conceived as a great dog or wolf. entered the house armed with a dead man''s hand with a lighted candle in sounded like the word for light, and thus gave rise to the story of a ninth night, assume human forms, and sing and dance like men and women myth of Geryon appeared to Greek scholars like Apollodoros. legends which Max Muller explains as myths of the victory of day over With many of these legends which present the myth of light and darkness originated a language which has held its own like the old Aryan and When, therefore, Achilleus is said, like a true sun-god, to have died by [Footnote 25: See the story of Aymar in Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, id = 45850 author = Flint, Robert title = Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 date = keywords = Appendix; Cause; Christianity; Divine; Father; God; Intelligence; Mill; NOTE; Professor; Supreme; argument; design; existence; history; idea; knowledge; man; mind; moral; nature; power; reason; religion; universe summary = belief that there is one God, infinite in power, wisdom, and goodness, Christian theism alone gives us a perfect representation of God. It precedes and surpasses reason, especially in the disclosure of indications of God given by the physical universe, the minds of men, nature for thinking of God as infinite, absolute, and perfect, since principles of reason which demand in God the existence of attributes greater extent in the reasonable grounds of faith in God''s existence, Man, say some, knows God by immediate intuition; he needs no argument All true theism implies a certain likeness between God and man. human mind thinks of God as the absolute, infinite, eternal, perfect God be not, the human mind is of its very nature self-contradictory; view, Divine; thoughts of God present in the mind of man; true thing as natural religion--no knowledge of God attainable except from id = 22955 author = Floyd, William title = The Mistakes of Jesus date = keywords = Father; God; Jesus; John; Luke; Mark; Matt; Son; man summary = and the date of his birth has been placed anywhere from 4 B.C. to 7 A.D. Matthew says that Jesus was born "in the days of Herod", while Luke says thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith Jesus stressed his mission to save the world, saying "For God so loved have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?"[39] "Let us alone, Jesus occasionally eulogized marriage: "For this cause shall a man leave Again Jesus said: "Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also If Jesus was not God, but merely the ideal man, his estimate of himself But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead Jesus had said that God would always answer prayers in his name. Whether Jesus was God, or man, or myth, he can be judged by his works, id = 30202 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Flowers of Freethought (First Series) date = keywords = Archbishop; Atheist; Bible; Christ; Christianity; Church; Devil; Dr.; England; God; Gosse; Heaven; Holy; Huxley; Jesus; Jews; Lord; Luther; Mr.; New; Paul; Providence; Shelley; Spurgeon; christian; faith; great; man; religion summary = and strong necessity, the lord of gods and men, brings them to be employed like the old garden-god to frighten away the crows. Wherever the priests retain their old power over the people''s minds they this article should fall under the eyes of a Christian man of God, we We tell the men of God, of every denomination, that they are Devil "God" and "Christ" appear in it like of Man was to come through the clouds with great power and glory, and few weeks before his death, Shelley wrote of Christianity that "no man of great Christian cities, where new churches are constantly built for the century, to pass an Act allowing Christians to obey Jesus Christ. As a man Jesus died because he had not the sense to live. Now let any man or any Christian seriously ask himself The gods are like men; they are reared, and they die, id = 30203 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) date = keywords = Atheist; Bacon; Bert; Besant; Bible; Bradlaugh; Brooke; Bruno; Charles; Christ; Christianity; Church; Edwin; England; Gallienne; God; Henson; Hughes; Jesus; Jews; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Paul; Professor; Sabbath; Sir; Slavery; Stokes; Testament; Watkinson; christian; man summary = "Well," he says, "the great evidence which we as Christians accept is, Christian world by appointing his atheistic friend Paul Bert as Minister God and his priests, but his corpse was a very good Christian, and it his mouth, making the great, virile Atheist talk like a little, flabby real truth and goodness there is in the world began with the Christian solidarity of mankind was "revealed to the human race through St. Paul"--which is a great slur upon Jesus Christ, and quite inconsistent Probably Mr. Watkinson, like most good Christians who go present time Christianity is steadily working against slavery all over "Slavery is cruel," says Mr. Henson, while "Christianity teaches men Like a true Christian and courtier, Sir Edwin Arnold dedicates his book With regard to man--the _entire_ human being, mortal and immortal--Mrs. Besant remarks that "un-instructed Christians" chop him into two, the id = 30204 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Arrows of Freethought date = keywords = Archbishop; Atheism; Bible; Bishop; Blackie; Booth; Brown; Christ; Christianity; Church; Devil; God; Holy; Jesus; Joshua; Mr.; Paine; Professor; Sunday; christian; man summary = cheereth the heart of God and man;" and he knows that his master, Jesus we shall believe that the author of "Common Sense," the "Rights of Man," the idea of a personal god, likens the Christian Trinity to three Lord progress we have made towards that time when the mind of man shall play if you cannot deduce God from the animate world, you are not likely He was no god of power, but a weak fallible man like ourselves; Man''s place in nature is, indeed, a great question, and it can be of man''s ever knowing whether there is a God or not? Nature drives on to no God and no good; he simply says he knows not to ascribe all the good in the world to God, and all the evil to man, or that the man who said _in his heart_ only "There is no God," without id = 30209 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Bible Romances, First Series date = keywords = Abel; Abraham; Adam; Balaam; Bible; Cain; Devil; Eden; Egypt; Eve; God; Israel; Jehovah; Jews; Jonah; Lord; Lot; Moses; Noah; Pharaoh summary = infallible Word of God. The Creation Story, with which the Book of Genesis opens, is incoherent, We read that the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, the told that the sons of God took unto them wives of the daughters of men And after the "fall" the Lord God said, "Behold, the man is become as upon the serpent "And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou Moses, "and you shall know that there is none like unto the Lord our sinned this time," he said, "the Lord is righteous, and I and my people We leave the Jews with their Lord God on the safe side of the Red Sea, the word of the Lord came unto Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, The word of the Lord came unto Jonah a second time, and presuming no But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God id = 30210 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Comic Bible Sketches, Reprinted from "The Freethinker" date = keywords = Bible; Comic; Freethinker summary = COMIC BIBLE SKETCHES that it would some day boast its Comic Bible. nine and three months'' imprisonment like common felons, all for the Amours de la Bible." But many others were free from this objection, and prophesied a speedy exhaustion of Bible topics, but they did not know The following Comic Bible Sketches, which will be succeeded in due in the Freethinker before its editor, proprietor and publisher were The French Comic Bible prints under each illustration a few crisp lines happened in some way, as to which the Divine Word is silent; this is our Ridicule is a most potent form of common-sense logic. Christians read the Bible without realising its wonders, allowing Let it be observed that these Comic Bible Sketches ridicule nothing but that to laugh at the absurdities of the Bible was to insult the human In like manner we publish our Comic Bible Sketches, and id = 38092 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = The Book of God : In the Light of the Higher Criticism With Special Reference to Dean Farrar''s New Apology date = keywords = Bible; Canon; Christ; Church; Dr.; Farrar; God; Holy; Jesus; New; Old; Testament; christian; scripture summary = The Bible is said to be inspired, but the man who reads it is not. Dean Farrar''s book contains nothing that is new to fairly well-read The first chapter of Dean Farrar''s book deals with the Bible Canon. true," Dr. Farrar remarks that the Bible is "not a single nor even a Having examined Dean Farrar''s observations on the Bible Canon, and seen No Christian, says Dr. Farrar, is called upon to believe in an actual God, but Dr. Farrar says that on this point the Jews were mistaken. influence of time and civilisation that makes Christians like Dr. Farrar Meanwhile we venture to suggest that the Bible texts referred to by Dr. Farrar, as requiring us to exercise the right of private judgment, are The Bible is no longer to be called _the_ Word of God. Ruskin says, and Gospels the criterion of the Word of God in the rest of the Bible, he id = 7076 author = Foote, G. W. (George William) title = Prisoner for Blasphemy date = keywords = Bailey; Bible; Blasphemy; Bradlaugh; City; Coleridge; Court; Foote; Freethinker; Freethought; God; Governor; Holloway; James; Judge; Justice; London; Lord; Mr.; North; Old; Ramsey; Sir; William summary = Criminal Law. It is more than possible that I shall be the last prisoner Judge North, on my first trial, plainly told the jury that any denial Lord Coleridge, in the Court of Queen''s Bench, on the occasion of Mr. Bradlaugh''s trial, sarcastically alluded to Sir Henry Tyler as "a person obliged to stand for hours in a crowded court in the dog-days, and waste and said that "it was impossible for any Christian man to read them Appealing now to a far larger jury in the high court of public opinion, Judge North, and two months'' imprisonment like a common thief under his than my experiences below, it said--"You are a prisoner." The court was great prison told him that he never knew a man undergo twelve months one of my three letters from prison: "For the first time juries have Mr. Ramsey," it said, "were sent to prison by Mr. Justice North for id = 23349 author = Fowler, W. Warde (William Warde) title = The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus date = keywords = Aen; Aeneas; Aeneid; Augustus; B.C.; Cato; Christianity; Cicero; City; Dr.; Fasti; Flamen; Frazer; God; Greece; Hercules; Italy; Janus; Juno; Jupiter; LECTURE; Latium; Livy; Lucretius; Marquardt; Mars; Mommsen; Mr.; Numa; Ovid; Pliny; Power; R.F.; R.K.; Religion; Rome; Scipio; Servius; Sibylline; State; Varro; Vesta; Virgil; Wissowa; christian; deity; etruscan; greek; history; italian; latin; religious; roman summary = real religious ideas of the genuine Roman people is a task very far from when Varro himself deals with the Roman gods and the old ideas about important points our ideas of Roman religious history, light reflected from later times on the religion of the early Roman the god, as an illustration of the Roman''s ideas of the divine; we know sense; so far no Roman deity of the city had been so housed, because he popular idea existed,[308] which the Roman state religion did not of material in the great work of Varro on the Roman religious that we have so far learnt about the early religious ideas of the Romans In public life, throughout Roman history, the forms of religious rites The last fact of Roman religious history which I mentioned last year was using the famous words of the old Roman religion, but in new senses. id = 40978 author = Francis, Samuel W. (Samuel Ward) title = Watson Refuted Being an Answer to the Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff date = keywords = Bible; Christ; Daniel; Esdras; God; Israel; Jews; Joshua; Lord; Moses; Mr.; Paine; book; jewish summary = say, the Jews believed in other gods, I refer him to Judges, chap. the priest found a book of the law of God _given_ by Moses, and sent it you suppose the Jews preserved the word of God. But what is most curious the Jews, God''s chosen nation, at any period, either while under his authority from God as Moses; and miracles are never wanting to prove it. doubt, read, that there was a book of the law of Moses, in which Joshua children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses only book either Moses or Joshua were ever said to have written; the mention as a book written and existing a few years after Moses, turns of God. I beg the reader will observe, that the writer of the Book of Joshua had of God. I shall follow the order of the books without attempting an id = 12261 author = Frazer, James George title = Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul date = keywords = Africa; American; Balder; Beltane; Berlin; British; Central; Christmas; County; Customs; Day; Der; Deutsche; Die; Easter; Edinburgh; Europe; Eve; Folk; France; Highlands; Indians; Ireland; J.G.; John; Lent; London; Mannhardt; Midsummer; New; North; Paris; Rev.; Sagen; Saturday; Scotland; Sir; South; St.; Sunday; Wales; Yule; fire; seclusion summary = bonfires on certain days of the year, dancing round them, leaping over [European custom of kindling bonfires on certain days of the year, to kindle bonfires on certain days of the year, and to dance round or witches."[393] The custom of kindling fires on the eve of May Day Midsummer Eve or Midsummer Day, which the church has dedicated to St. John the Baptist; the bonfires, the torches, and the burning wheels of In Wales the midsummer fires were kindled on St. John''s Eve and on St. John''s Day. Three or nine different kinds of wood and charred faggots bonfires were kindled on Midsummer Eve.[513] On the same day people in great bonfire is kindled on St. John''s Eve, and that the young people till New Year''s Day to kindle a light with or it is carried out to the id = 20116 author = Frazer, James George title = The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia date = keywords = Anthropological; Australia; British; Central; Codrington; Dr.; Fiji; Fijians; Footnote; Gillen; God; Guinea; Islanders; Islands; London; Melanesians; Mr.; Nanga; New; Northern; Rev.; South; Spencer; Straits; Torres; Tribes; Wollunqua; belief; dead; death; german; ghost; man; sidenote summary = death-dance by men personating ghosts, 185-188; preservation of the the dead in the other world, 286 _sq._; ghosts die the second death and the dead and the ghostly ferry, 350 _sq._; ghosts die the second death subterranean abode of the dead, 353 _sq._; ghosts die the second death, that in the Arunta tribe the souls of dead people of the plum-tree totem moment at which the ghost of the dead man or woman was supposed to be leaves the body at death and goes away to live with other ghosts on a which means the ghost or spirit of a dead person. dead man stand in fear of his ghost, the body may not be buried until a living woman; the person so inspired by a dead man''s spirit becomes an in the spiritual part of living men or in the ghosts of the dead, being id = 33524 author = Frazer, James George title = The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 2 (of 3) The Belief Among the Polynesians date = keywords = Brown; Captain; Cook; Ellis; Forster; Hawaii; Hervey; Islanders; Islands; James; Journal; London; Maori; Mariner; Maui; Melanesians; Moerenhout; New; Old; Pacific; Polynesian; Samoa; Samoans; Society; South; Stair; Tonga; Turner; Voyage; Wilson; World; Zealand summary = near the place of death, and along these stalks the soul of the dead man inferior gods are the souls of dead men, who consequently have not sometimes great chiefs were thus visited by the gods, and the king religion, the souls of dead nobles ranked as gods, possessing all the Again, the souls of dead nobles, like gods, had the power of appearing from the grave at which a new god, that is, a dead man or woman, was gods, the king, the divine chief (the living Tooitonga), the inferior chiefs, and the people, so that every man in the island of Tongataboo great chief or king of a whole island. Islanders, as of many other peoples, a man''s soul or spirit is a their priests; and if the king or chief was killed or taken, the god worship of the gods in the Society Islands, 277 _sqq._; id = 3623 author = Frazer, James George title = The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion date = keywords = Adonis; Africa; Aino; America; Attis; Australia; Balder; Carnival; Central; Christmas; Day; Demeter; Diana; Dionysus; East; Easter; Egypt; Egyptians; Europe; Eve; France; Germany; God; Greece; Guinea; Indians; Isis; Islands; Italy; John; Jupiter; King; Maiden; Midsummer; Mother; Nemi; New; North; Old; Osiris; Persephone; Queen; Rome; Scotland; South; St.; Sunday; Sweden; West; Whitsuntide; Wolf; Wood; Yule; Zeus; chapter; corn; death; european; fire; greek; man; roman; tree; year summary = grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of the day, festival, the tree is carried into the house with great ceremony to supposing that in very early times the old Latin kings personated a believe that at death the soul, "the little entire man or woman" power of life and death over the man, woman, or child who ate the putting the man-god to death instead of allowing him to die of old man-god dies what we call a natural death, it means, according to like those by which, in so many places, the life of the man-god has a tree and by a person, so in the harvest customs the corn-spirit is Believing the rice to be animated by a soul like that of a man, the the Wild Man. The OX appears as a representative of the corn-spirit in other parts corn-spirit''s representative, were taken to the king''s house and id = 36767 author = Frothingham, Octavius Brooks title = The Cradle of the Christ: A Study in Primitive Christianity date = keywords = Christ; Christianity; Christians; Father; God; Israel; Jehovah; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; Judaism; Logos; Lord; Messiah; Messianic; New; Old; Paul; Renan; Rome; Son; Testament; hebrew; jewish; roman summary = the New Testament in the literature of the Hebrew people, to show in gulf between the Old and the New Testaments, in order that Christianity lodge the ancient Hebraic idea in the very heart of the New. The earliest phases of the Messianic hope were the most exalted in Such a faith his new theory of the Christ gave the old time traditions of his people; that the Jewish half of the man divine character of the Christ by his power to work miracles. In this book, the Christ takes the place of God, as the revealed or is a liar." "Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in hour is come," says Jesus, on receiving them, "that the Son of Man Christ to come, or, as with the radical Jews, unexpectant of a personal the person of Jesus, only as he is associated with the Christ-idea or is id = 639 author = Gamble, Eliza Burt title = The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion date = keywords = Aleim; Christ; Christianity; Church; Creator; Deity; East; Egypt; God; Great; Greeks; Heaven; Higgins; India; Ireland; Isis; Jews; Life; Lord; Mother; Nature; Seth; St.; Virgin; Wisdom; christian; worship summary = female and male, has had on the development of our present God-idea, of various nations, in the customs, and popular usages."(6) As treeand sun-worship, or the adoration of Nature''s processes, finally became a time when a mother and her child represented the Deity, the sun was dethrone the female principle in the god-idea, the Great Mother, under female element throughout Nature as God. The length of time which the principles which in preceding ages they had adored as God. We have seen that in every country upon the earth there is a tradition power, and Vishnu herself has become transformed into a male God. Although the rites connected with the worship of Cybele were phallic earliest form of religion, namely, Nature-worship, the gods have never female God of Nature who was once worshipped by every people on the the fact that the god-idea was originally worshipped as female, still, id = 30207 author = Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) title = Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures date = keywords = America; Appendix; Bible; Christianity; Church; England; God; Lord; Moses; Pagan; Paul; St.; christian; good; great; man; religion; right; time; woman summary = The men who declare that woman is the intellectual inferior of man, do Women have for a long time been asking for the right to an education, To this God of the Bible a woman may not go unless her father or husband teach as the word and will of God for women, it ought to be fit to read of God; murderers of men; butchers of children; debauchers of women; is the men who invented religion, and the women who believed in it. I believe that a Church has no right to teach what it does not know. more necessary than love for God. I believe that men, women, and children need our best thoughts, our I want men and women to be good and true because it is right towards on this earth long before man could have lived, they said that God id = 20523 author = Gardner, Ernest Arthur title = Religion and Art in Ancient Greece date = keywords = Apollo; Athena; Greece; Phidias; Zeus; art; god; greek; statue summary = expressed by some later Greek writers; in earlier times it was probably the art of the early sculptors in Greece--made statues of the gods so statues whereby the sculptors of the fifth century gave expression to regarded as the express image of the god and the embodiment of his character and individuality of the gods in human form, the next question turn from tradition and consider the early examples of statues of gods not with the art itself and the religious ideals which it expressed. achieve in the service of God. The religious influence of art in the fifth century is, as we have seen, character in almost all the great statues of gods that are recorded as gods--Apollo, for example--seem in fifth-century statues to have a more ideals of character whether in gods or men, that of the fourth century statues of the gods in the fifth century are almost all represented as id = 2330 author = Giles, Herbert Allen title = Religions of Ancient China date = keywords = A.D.; B.C.; China; Confucius; Emperor; God; King; Shang; sacrifice summary = God the Father, Earth the Mother.--The Yellow Emperor was followed by with all due reverence, fell into evil ways, and was abandoned by God. This was the beginning of the end. dynasty, offered sacrifices to Almighty God, and also to Mother Earth. spirits wishing to undermine man''s allegiance to God, or desiring to time between the third and sixth centuries A.D. Chinese Terms for God.--Before passing to the firmer ground, Only the Emperor worships God and Earth.--From the records of this who had personally received the Imperial mandate from God. This same Minister is said to be responsible for the following First of all, there were the great sacrifices to God and to their great sacrificial ceremonies the ancients served God; by their The great sacrifices to God and to Earth, as performed by the early attention of the Chinese people from the simple worship of God and of id = 19321 author = Graebner, Theodore title = Evolution: An Investigation and a Critique date = keywords = Darwin; Dr.; God; Huxley; Mr.; Spencer; Wallace; animal; christian; darwinian; evolution; fact; find; form; greek; life; man; theory summary = _organic_ evolution in its relation to living forms (plant and animal in the early age of the world was developed from "mere animal creatures." In its relations to animal life a development theory was first work: _"The Origin of Species."_ The keynote of Darwin''s theory is Natural Selection, by which term the development of all living forms is that in the history of plants and animals on earth, the simplest forms theory, man differs from the lower organisms not in kind so much as in better developed brute--the natural result being that man is no more theory which claims to account for the beginning of all animal life produced living (plant and animal) matter, life must have originated at original] Observe, that these two highly organized forms of animals, to the evolution of plants and animals, cling to the doctrine that man facts to mean that there is progressive development in animal and plant id = 38600 author = Graves, Kersey title = The World''s Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ date = keywords = Chrishna; Christ; Christianity; Essenes; Father; Ghost; God; Gods; Higgins; Hindoo; Holy; India; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Luke; Matt; Messiah; Mr.; New; Savior; Scripture; Son; Testament; Trinity; Word; christian; history; jewish summary = to this God and rival Savior of Jesus Christ, by having been previously Gods, is of astrological origin--the story of Jesus Christ included. "Lord Jesus Christ" Narayan of Bermuda was styled the "Holy Living God." Christian writers admit the belief in earth-born Gods (called Sons of How "the man Christ Jesus" came to be worshiped as a God, is pretty such converts to worship "the man Christ Jesus" as a God on account of God, our Master, Jesus Christ, to be born of a virgin without any human tell us, in effect, that God sent his Son Jesus Christ into the world the Christian incarnation--the divinity of Jesus Christ As some of the WHEN Christians are asked for the proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ, They never speak of him as the God Christ Jesus, but as "the man the Christian''s man-God, Jesus Christ. id = 43550 author = Graves, Lydia M. title = The Bible of Bibles; Or, Twenty-Seven "Divine" Revelations date = keywords = Abraham; Adam; Bible; Book; CHAPTER; Christ; Christianity; Church; David; Egypt; Father; Gen.; God; Gods; Hindoo; Holy; India; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Luke; Matt; Moses; Mr.; New; Old; Paul; Sam; Testament; christian; jewish; king; man; moral summary = TWO THOUSAND BIBLICAL ERRORS IN SCIENCE, HISTORY, MORALS, RELIGION, AND those morally defective books called Bibles in the hands of the ignorant of cases cited in this work prove that the Christian Bible may be ranked pleasing to God and useful to man." A text in this sacred book reads, Bible, and the revelation inscribed on man''s moral nature, and soul-saving revelation of God. Jesus refers to this natural Bible, or revelation, again when he say''s, The Bible tells us "the Lord God formed man of the dust of the The Bible teaches that "God made man in his own image." The reverse called the man of God to account for his moral defects (Gen. xx.). plant in his mind a very low standard of the moral perfections of God. We are told (Gen. xix. 1. God formed and fashioned man, according to the Bible, after his own With the characteristic moral teaching of the Christian Bible, presented id = 15516 author = Griffis, William Elliot title = The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji date = keywords = A.D.; Asia; Buddha; Buddhism; CHAPTER; Chamberlain; China; Christendom; Christianity; Confucianism; Confucius; Dai; Dr.; English; Europe; Footnote; Gautama; God; Heaven; India; Japan; Kojiki; Korea; Land; M.E.; Mikado; Mr.; New; Northern; Professor; Rev.; Shin; T.A.S.J.; Vol; Yamato; Yedo; chinese; christian; great; history; japanese; religion summary = fulfil."--Characteristics of Japan.--Bird''s-eye view of Japanese history Japan is young beside China and Korea.--Japanese history is in Japan Tei-Shu system.--In Buddhism the Japanese were startling Japan.--The first organized religion of the Japanese.--Professor Basil Chinese as pronounced by Japanese, means the Way of the Gods, the t[=o] of wicked people like the Chinese; while the ancient Japanese were pure call Japan, the Land of the Gods, the Country of the Holy Spirits, the avatar in Japan of Buddha in the previous ages, when the Japanese were that vast development of Japanese Buddhism, peculiar to Japan and Japanese gods as well as men, and no being without Buddha, the way is Buddhism coming to Japan by means of the Great Vehicle, or with the [Footnote 20: For light upon the status of the Japanese family, see F.O. Adams''s History of Japan, Vol. II., p. id = 28497 author = Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title = Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas date = keywords = Anderson; Arnold; Asgard; Balder; Dead; Edda; Fenris; Freya; Frigga; Frithiof; Gudrun; Hel; Ingeborg; Jötun; King; Loki; Matthew; Norns; North; Odin; Saga; Sigmund; Sigurd; Thor; Thorpe; Valhalla; god; northern; Æsir summary = The gods, in Northern mythology called Æsir (pillars and supporters The gods not only appointed Sun, Moon, Day, and Night to mark the that were fair, good, and useful, the gods called Fairies and Elves, among gods, giants, elves, dwarfs, and men. As men and gods owed the priceless gift to Odin, they were ever ready Freya was so beautiful that all the gods, giants, and dwarfs longed for arch-fiend Loki, of having loved and wedded all the gods in turn. Son of Balder, god of light, and of Nanna, goddess of immaculate of one of Odin''s sons, but that if the father of the gods should woo Hel, goddess of death, was the daughter of Loki, god of evil, and of and beauty of the world, the gods turned upon Loki, and threatened the minds of all that Odin, king of the gods, had been in their midst. id = 14120 author = Hammon, William title = Answer to Dr. Priestley''s Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever date = keywords = Deity; Dr.; God; Priestley; argument; letter; man summary = Natural or Moral proof of his existence and of those attributes. That religion or belief of a Deity cannot bear the force of argument is is meant a belief in the existence of a Deity from natural and exist without a Deity, you, Dr. Priestley, allow to be no impossibility. "By reason we can discover the necessary existence of a Deity, the idea of a Deity, if we do not exclude an existent universe. for the good of man to be made happy now, and that the Deity can be do so, the argument of the Deity''s existence is independent of such than a belief in God; for the moral purpose in believing a Deity (an on the subject; that is, how God could exist without a prior cause. He must however allow, if reason proves a Deity respecting Natural religion and the proof of the existence of a God id = 35772 author = Hardwick, J. C. (John Charlton) title = Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson date = keywords = Bergson; Darwin; Descartes; England; Galileo; God; Kant; Leibniz; Spencer; Spinoza; Vol; chapter; man; new; philosophy; religion; science summary = Importance, for the mechanical view, of Locke''s theory of Science and religion working by different methods would have described COMMON-SENSE PHILOSOPHY.--The strength of this mechanical view lies in whose attitude is also religious, religion and philosophy were two forms FROM SCIENCE TO PHILOSOPHY.--The record of certain important scientific natural science, or faith in it, as such, as a matter of religious a final philosophy based upon the _data_ supplied by natural science. And so with Nature; to science it is a mechanism, to the understanding fact that the common-sense philosophy of naturalism rested upon a tacit natural science, had sought to impose itself on the world as a new In his _Natural Law in Science and Philosophy_ (1895), Boutroux lays it RISE OF A NEW PHILOSOPHY.--This examination of the principles of natural world which that philosophy regards as _reality_, is, to the critical RESULTS.--These new conceptions of matter, of life, and of mind, which id = 59651 author = Hartmann, Jacob title = The Creation of God date = keywords = Abraham; B.C.; Bible; CHAPTER; Carbon; Christ; David; Egypt; Ghost; God; Hebrews; Holy; Hydrogen; Israel; Jehova; Jews; Judah; Lord; Moses; Oxygen; Paul; Samuel; Saul; Solomon; animal; blood; christian; earth; form; great; king; life; man; substance; time summary = soul, spirit, God or Jehovah, they were evolved in the brain of man; of substances, called organic, that are derived from living things or Verse 15: "And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden Verse 18: "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should taken place between mortal man and a God. Adam tells him that he has Verse 22: "And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one Verse 5: "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the contrary to the laws of nature; that neither God nor man could, if they the Lord thy God." And the man Moses knew what he was talking about, as a nation, to any supernatural power, to God, Jehova, or the Lord, of five elements, as muscle, brain, blood; these are Oxygen, Carbon, id = 32242 author = Hawthorne, Nathaniel title = A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys date = keywords = Baucis; Bellerophon; Chimæra; Epimetheus; Eustace; Hercules; King; Midas; Pandora; Pegasus; Perseus; Philemon; Quicksilver; illustration summary = "Thank you, my little Cowslip," said Eustace; "certainly you shall great, naughty Primrose, little Dandelion, or any other, I shall bite shall tell you a sweet pretty story of a Gorgon''s head." half an eye, my wise little auditors), these good old dames had fallen "My dear, good, admirable old ladies," said Perseus, addressing the the old, old times, when King Midas was alive, a great many things "The Golden Touch," asked the stranger, "or your own little Marygold, "You are wiser than you were, King Midas!" said the stranger, looking well know, in your naughty little heart, that I have burnished the old "Cousin Eustace," said Sweet Fern, a good little boy, who was always "Ah," said the sweet little voice again, "you had much better let me "A little more milk, kind Mother Baucis, if you please," said "You are a fine little man!" said Bellerophon, drawing the child id = 35377 author = Hawthorne, Nathaniel title = A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys date = keywords = Antæus; Bellerophon; Cadmus; Ceres; Epimetheus; Eustace; Giant; Golden; Hercules; Jason; King; Midas; Mother; Pandora; Pegasus; Perseus; Philemon; Pluto; Proserpina; Quicksilver; Theseus; Ulysses summary = The young man came to the palace, and found the king sitting upon his "My dear, good, admirable old ladies," said Perseus, addressing the Gray the old, old times, when King Midas was alive, a great many things came "You are wiser than you were, King Midas!" said the stranger, looking "Cousin Eustace," said Sweet Fern, a good little boy, who was always "Ah," said the sweet little voice again, "you had much better let me "Hear him, Periwinkle, trying to talk like a grown man!" said Primrose. "You are a fine little man!" said Bellerophon, drawing the child closer lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus. There was the poor old king, too, leaning on his son''s arm, and looking His little friends, like all other small people, had a great opinion of "Long live King Cadmus," they cried, "in his beautiful palace." id = 17607 author = Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'' title = Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense date = keywords = Christ; Christian; Divine; Divinity; God; Gods; Heaven; Jesus; Lord; Meslier; Pagans; Providence; St.; Testament; cause; good; man; reason; religion; true; world summary = morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of Gods; they world; its monarch is God; His ministers are the priests; their subjects Religion unites man with God or puts them in communication; but do you the human mind is to render God unfit for men. Men believe in God only upon the word of those who have no more idea of But according to theology, man in his relation to God is far It appears that God, in creating more perfect beings than men, did not world who have or can have the same ideas of their God. CXXIII.--SKEPTICISM IN THE MATTER OF RELIGION, CAN BE THE EFFECT OF BUT A honor to God, far from proving the Divinity of religion, destroy worshiping the true God. To establish morality, or the duties of man, upon the Divine will, is attribute Divinity to mortal men, and worship them as Gods after their id = 31275 author = Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'' title = Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices date = keywords = Christianity; Deity; Devil; Divinity; God; Jesus; Jews; Madam; Moses; Son; christian; good; idea; letter; man; priest; reason; religion summary = give us _true_ ideas of God; and it is by our reason alone that we are years were the exclusive possessors of the knowledge of the true God. By an effect of his special kindness, the Jewish people was for a long According to the principles of the Christian religion, God does not Behold, Madam, the God whom this religion orders you to adore _in Christian religion, the Devil has more adherents than God himself; of God''s goodness; they tell you they will be eternal,--a thing which religion, at the same time that it assures us that God is the author The true means, Madam, of living happy in this world is to do good to ideas, which all revealed religions give us of the Deity, the priests Christian religion, which supposes its God as cruel to exact The power of loving a God whom religion id = 38094 author = Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'' title = Letters To Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices date = keywords = Christianity; Deity; Devil; Divinity; Eugenia; God; Jesus; Jews; Madam; Moses; Son; christian; good; idea; man; priest; reason; religion summary = _true_ ideas of God; and it is by our reason alone that we are able a word, every thing in religion announces a despotic God, whom his Christian religion, God does not cease, for a single instant, his Behold, Madam, the God whom this religion orders you to adore _in spirit of God''s goodness; they tell you they will be eternal,--a thing which The true means, Madam, of living happy in this world is to do good to the entire system of the Christian religion, it is evident that God did religion, which supposes its God as cruel to exact sufferings from men Christian virtues is _Charity_; that is, to love God above all things, The power of loving a God whom religion nature in the breasts of men; in the name of the God of goodness, God is the author of reason, we can only wish that men who are possessed id = 40770 author = Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'' title = Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion date = keywords = Bible; Christianity; Christians; God; Hebrews; Jesus; Jews; Moses; man; mankind; priest; reason; religion; render summary = If the manners of nations have gained nothing by the Christian religion, OR THE IDEAS OF GOD, AND HIS CONDUCT, GIVEN US BY THE CHRISTIAN inspired by the same God. Thus, all religions pretend to a divine Thus, we are commanded by Christianity to believe that a God having his destructive temptations, rather than the absolute commands of God. This Satan, the cause of so much terror to Christians, was evidently Christians endeavour to prove the divine origin of their religion by the sanction of God. In my opinion, however, the Christian religion, which tramples on every moral duty in obedience to its God. In a word, the religion, which boasts of having brought peace on earth, divines who pretend that, without the Christian religion there could The love, therefore, of a Christian to his God can Christian love beings who continually offend his God? id = 7319 author = Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'' title = Good Sense date = keywords = Christians; Deity; Divinity; God; Morality; Providence; Theology; good; idea; man; nature; priest; reason; religion; world summary = Impossible to believe God is of infinite goodness and power Impossible to believe God is of infinite goodness and power Man''s life, deposes against goodness of a pretended God The principles of every religion are founded upon the idea of a GOD. Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet form a visible world, nor create men or gods. Men believe in God only upon the word of those, who have no more idea of rendered mortals very unhappy in this world, religion tells them, that God If man, when just out of the hands of his God, could sin, his nature was an effect of the omnipotence of God. These are the ideas that men form of this religion were the most important concern of men, the goodness of God the divinity of a religion, evidently annihilate the God idea. Religion, by associating God with Man, id = 36800 author = Holyoake, Austin title = Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester date = keywords = God; Jesus; Lord; Peter; Son; man summary = heavens opened to Jesus, and the Spirit of God descended like a dove and give his angels charge concerning thee." Jesus said unto him, "It is of another, Jesus said, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. We are told that when "Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave But Jesus said unto him, When Jesus entered the ruler''s house, he said, "Give place, enthusiastic Peter said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on Jesus said, Come; to which Peter responded by stepping out of Jesus blessed Peter, and promised him the keys of the kingdom of heaven; Peter rebuked him, and said it should not be; but Jesus Christ, the Son of God." Jesus at last replied--"Thou hast said," which And as they went, whom should they meet but Jesus himself, who said id = 36797 author = Holyoake, George Jacob title = The Principles of Secularism date = keywords = Bible; Christianity; Freethought; God; Nature; Secular; man; right; secularism summary = SECULARISM is the study of promoting human welfare by material means; Secular principles involve for mankind a future, where there shall "Secularism accepts no authority but that of Nature, adopts no methods Secularism holds it to be the duty of every man to reserve a portion of advancing the Secular good of this life, of the authority of natural action of all who believe it right to promote the Secular good of this life, to teach morality, founded upon the laws of Nature, and to rightfulness of its principles and duties both for life and death. SECULARISM means the moral duty of man in this life deduced from the more difficult relations of man to God. Our duties to humanity, Secular improvement of this life--Unity of thought and action upon these Secularism seeks the material purity of the present life, at him who declares the Secular right to be essentially a Christian id = 36798 author = Holyoake, George Jacob title = The Limits of Atheism; Or, Why Should Sceptics Be Outlaws? date = keywords = Affirmative; Atheism; Cosmism; God; nature; truth summary = of Freethought, and I use the term Atheism, as the subject of a Lecture, working men, so far as it prevails, is no longer the old Atheism of Atheism questions--Cosmism affirms. must keep within the limits naturally prescribed to Affirmative Atheism, Modern Atheism is falsely regarded as a mere negation, as a species of Old Atheism shows that the alleged proofs of the existence of a Deity Atheism must teach that nature is the Bible of truth, work is worship, Cosmism, a thoughtful name, which ought to supersede Atheism in the If we say God is Light, Love, Truth, Power, Goodness, Law, Principle, improvements in thought and spirit, which the mere term Atheism 3. Dispassionateness is a law of Affirmative Atheism. is a law and limit of Affirmative Atheism. the views of Affirmative Atheism under these ''Limits'' be treated in the reverent conjecture, of which even mere negative Atheism is a reserved id = 38104 author = Holyoake, George Jacob title = English Secularism: A Confession of Belief date = keywords = Bible; CHAPTER; Christianity; Dr.; God; Holyoake; Mr.; Reasoner; Rev.; Secular; State; christian; free; man; secularism; thought; truth summary = The Religion of Science would not divide life into a secular of man, of making the secular sacred, of filling life with meaning and objections of many excellent Christians to Secular instruction in State, preaching, practice, and social life of Christians of to-day, a very I proposed was: "Secularism--a form of opinion relating to the duty of Free thought implies three things as conditions of truth: THIRD STAGE OF FREE THOUGHT--SECULARISM term Secularism was chosen to express the extension of free thought to world_.--Theology works by "spiritual" means, Secularism by _material_ that is true, and a will of God in that which is right," Secularism, Thus that new form of free thought came to have public "With secular instruction only in the day school, religion will acquire SECULARISM differs from Christianism in so far as it accepts only the was far more thought of than Christian reasoning. id = 14499 author = Hopkins, Edward Washburn title = The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow date = keywords = Agni; Aryans; Atharvan; Bergaigne; Brahman; Buddha; Buddhism; Christianity; Dawn; Father; Footnote; God; Greek; Hillebrandt; Hindu; Hinduism; III; Indra; JRAS; Jain; Krishna; Lord; Manes; Manu; Mitra; Muir; Müller; Rig; Rudra; Savitar; Soma; Song; Spirit; Supreme; Upanishads; VII; Varuna; Veda; Vedic; Vishnu; Vishnuite; Weber; Williams; Yama; ZDMG; brahmanic; buddhistic; christian; iranian; Çat; Çiva; Çivaite summary = factors in the making of the hymns of the Rig Veda, and the gods they said, "Yon burning sun-god is death," but in the Rig Veda'' they kept in the meaning ''god,'' literally ''giver.'' In the Rig Veda the word enduring of India''s nature-gods.[52] In no early passage is the sun a conception of that Father-god whose form, in the end of the Rig Vedic Yama is regarded as a god, although in the Rig Veda he is called only ''good man'' in the Rig Veda are demanded piety toward gods and manes worship of Vishnu and Çiva as great gods is apparently a later real battle-god of the later epic; though in its original form Indra [Footnote 35: Man (divine) and god human, but N[=a]r[=a]yana in the Upanishads is Vishnu the one great god left from the Rig Veda. [Footnote 81: According to the epic, men honor gods that id = 19397 author = Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher) title = History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology date = keywords = Bible; Bishop; Boston; Broad; CHAPTER; Christ; Christianity; Church; Colenso; England; English; Essays; Europe; Father; France; Germany; God; Halle; Holland; Holy; Jesus; John; Kant; Life; London; Lord; Moses; New; Old; Pentateuch; Pietism; Protestantism; Rationalism; Reformation; Renan; Reviews; Schleiermacher; School; Spirit; Strauss; Testament; Theology; University; York; christian; french; great; history; rationalistic; reason; scripture summary = in the "_Reasonable Thoughts of God_," "_Natural Theology_," and "_Moral Christian Religion and Church_, embracing the period from the close of history of the Church of Christ is the clear exhibition of the divine [60] _History of the Christian Religion and Church._ _Preface to First Hence, we safely presume the existence of an eternal God. This being is the foundation of Christian faith and life. Christians in the form in which church-theology has allowed those ideas of grace and truth in Jesus Christ, as the Son of God and of man, by that the power to work them is still in the church over which Christ FRANCE: RATIONALISM IN THE PROTESTANT CHURCH--THE CRITICAL SCHOOL OF All Christian churches live by faith. faith are attacked, the differences existing between Christian churches I have seen Christianity working, not only in churches, but, called the Church when it recognizes its relation to God in Christ, and id = 20447 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews date = keywords = Answer; Beecher; Bible; Blaine; Catholic; Chicago; Christianity; Christians; Church; Cleveland; Colonel; Congress; Dr.; England; General; God; Government; Ingersoll; Mr.; New; North; Old; President; Question; Shakespeare; South; States; Sunday; Testament; United; York; american; democratic; man; republican summary = time when every man, woman and child will enjoy every human right. In that State I think General Gresham is the coming man. I have no objection to people believing in any good thing--no Most people find great pleasure in thinking about and in believing good Christians--honest and noble people, but in my judgment, Mr. Beecher is the greatest man in the world who now occupies a pulpit. People who believe his way will probably think that he has for this world, and I hope the time will come when a civilized man But the great thing for the laboring man in the United States is --it wants free men; and a great many people in the Republican man is not happy so long as he knows that other good men and women The great thing is for the people to know the facts. id = 37703 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = About The Holy Bible: A Lecture date = keywords = Bible; Christ; God; Jehovah; Testament; book; man summary = inspired word of God--millions who think that this book is staff and imagine that this book is a revelation from the wisdom and love of God to the brain and heart of man--millions who regard this book as a torch We know that God is not mentioned or in any way referred to in the book God is not mentioned in the Song of Solomon, the best book in the Old or Jehovah, did not inspire the writers of his book for the purpose of admit that the inspired men who wrote the Old Testament knew nothing Darius, being then a believer in the true God, sent for the men who had Persian: God created the world in six days, a man called Adama, a woman According to the gospels, Christ healed diseases, cast out devils, Does any natural man now believe that Christ cast out devils? id = 38093 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Christian Religion: An Enquiry date = keywords = Bible; God; Jehovah; Old; Testament summary = to reform man, this _God_ came upon earth as a child born of the _Virgin Suppose that we knew that after "inspired" men had finished the Bible, words of the one claimed to be the infinite God, as recorded in the his revelation to the intellectual capacity of man; but why should God If the Bible is really inspired Jehovah commanded the Jewish people to If the Bible is inspired, Jehovah God of all worlds, actually said: "And said: "The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be Can we believe that God ever said of any one: "Let his children be of God was satisfied, and that the blood of Christ was an atonement, an When a man commits a crime, the laws demands his work of God; but as men were here a good while before any books were the Old Testament are not inspired; that slavery, polygamy, wars of id = 38095 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Heretics And Heresies From ''The Gods and Other Lectures'' date = keywords = Calvin; Christ; Church; God; Presbyterian; man summary = The Church persecutes the living and her God It is claimed that God wrote a book called the Bible, and it is Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy Why should the Church pity a man whom her God hates? should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn Every church pretends that it has a revelation from God, and that this It was claimed that God had founded the Church, and that to deny the authority of the Church was to be a traitor to God, and such is the history of the Church of God. I do not say, and I do not believe, that Christians are as bad as their heretics and infidels, the Church perpetrated all these crimes. Men and women have been burned for thinking there is but one God; that John Calvin, the founder of the Presbyterian Church. id = 38096 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Humboldt From ''The Gods and Other Lectures'' date = keywords = great; law; man; world summary = great idea that the universe is governed by law, took possession of laws governing the world; to do away with that splendid delusion called the world is governed by law, and that there really exists a connection philosophical history of man; of Kotzebue, who lived in the world of of presenting to the world a picture of Nature, in order that men might, great demonstrator of the sublime truth, that the universe is governed world; faith put out the eyes of the soul; the reason was a trembling the laws of nature, and that wisdom is the science of happiness. law, it was only natural to conclude that our little world was also we say that the universe is governed by law, we mean that this fact, For these reasons he is honored throughout the world. world--with every science known to man, and with every star glittering id = 38098 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Individuality From ''The Gods and Other Lectures'' date = keywords = Church; God; man; right; world summary = the Church had had absolute control of the human mind at any time, would they are ordained of God;" suppose the Church could control the world the revenge of man is the justice of God; that mercy is not the same reason was denounced as a scorner and hater of God and his holy Church. who conscientiously believes in religious liberty, worship a God who for denying the existence of God. According to these, religious people, truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but greatness of God, and the littleness of the people. a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man others, for a human government, and for a Constitution in which no God They knew that to put God in the Constitution was to put man out. keeping, or in the keeping of her God, the sacred rights of man. id = 38099 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Mistakes of Moses date = keywords = Aaron; Adam; Egypt; Egyptians; Eve; God; Hebrews; Israel; Jews; Lord; Moses; Noah; Pentateuch; Pharaoh; day; man summary = the good all their evil; that in this world God punishes the people he All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same It is not easy to account for an infinite God making people so low in account is true, we must believe that God, existing in infinite space The man who wrote that absurd account must have believed that God lived Moses says that God said on the third day, "Let the earth bring forth fourth day God said, "Let there be light in the firmament of the heaven We are then told that on the next day "God said, Let the waters bring On this, the last day of creation, God said:--"Let the earth bring forth "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden believe the bible to be the inspired word of God. Let me show you the result of unbelief. id = 38103 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy, at Morristown, N. J., May 1887: Defence date = keywords = Church; Constitution; God; Jersey; New; christian; man; right summary = I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any church, of years ago, by men who believed it was right to burn heretics and tie the Turks had a law like this statute in New Jersey. statute, the same man who cannot be denied any political or civil right, have read the book--I do not believe that it is the word of God?" Can you imagine an infinitely good God sending a man to hell that made this law said to another man: "You say this world is round?" the men that had this man indicted the power, and I would not want to to deny the existence of your God. Was he a good man? be blasphemy in me to say I do not believe that any God ever made men, I do not believe that a God made this world, filled it with people and id = 38107 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Gods From ''The Gods and Other Lectures'' date = keywords = God; cause; devil; force; man; nature; people; power; world summary = of war, because the bible is the word of God. As a matter of fact, there be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. become as gods, knowing good and evil." For this reason, religion Man, in his# ignorance, supposed that all phenomena were produced by to conceive of a god utterly unlike himself, and he naturally supposed supposed influence with the gods, made of his fellow-man a cringing This belief in good and evil powers had its origin in the fact that man nations, the gods still interfere; but in prize fights, the best man of interference by the gods in this age of the world, still thinks, of cause and effect, proves the existence of a power superior to nature. Of what use have the gods been to man? Would an infinitely wise, good and powerful God, intending to produce id = 38801 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 01 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date = keywords = Bible; Calvin; Christ; Christians; England; Father; God; Holy; Illinois; Jesus; John; Lord; Mark; Matthew; New; Paine; Son; Testament; child; church; good; great; man; nature; reason; world summary = and ignorance, called "faith." What man, who ever thinks, can believe become as gods, knowing good and evil." For this reason, religion This belief in good and evil powers had its origin in the fact that man do believe that it is better to love men than to fear gods; that it is as the enemy of man and God. In all ages reason has been regarded as the God will forever reward the true believer, and eternally damn the man they are ordained of God;" suppose the church could control the world Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates? believe there is any god in the universe who will damn a man simply for believe that God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn the Humanity is the grand religion, and no God can put a man in hell in id = 38802 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 02 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date = keywords = Aaron; Adam; Bible; Christ; Eden; Egypt; Egyptians; Eve; God; Hebrews; Israel; Jehovah; Jews; Lord; Moses; New; Noah; Old; Pharaoh; Testament; christian; man; world summary = the good all their evil; that in this world God punishes the people he All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same account is true, we must believe that God, existing in infinite space The man who wrote that absurd account must have believed that God lived Moses says that God said on the third day, "Let the earth bring forth fourth day God said, "Let there be light in the firmament of the heaven "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God. Let me show you the result of unbelief. If the Bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men poor man in his cause;" that God never told a people not to live in "_We believe that man was made in the image of God, that he might know, id = 38803 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 03 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date = keywords = Bacon; Bible; Burns; Catholic; Christ; Christians; David; Devil; England; France; God; Jehovah; John; Lincoln; North; Old; Paine; Scotland; Shakespeare; South; St.; Testament; Voltaire; Whitman; death; good; great; life; love; man; world summary = Scotland, New England--In the Dark Ages--Let us Live for Man--X. The poet lives in the world of thought and feeling, and to this the shell lives a poem, and all the great men of the world, and all the This man believed in human love, in making a heaven here, At this time Voltaire was not interested in the great world--knew very in this infamy has ever been touched by the wrathful hand of God. Now and then a man of genius, of sense, of intellectual honesty, has The men of thought now know that all religions and all sacred books have The intelligent man now knows that we live in a natural world, that gods Intelligent men now know, that if there be an infinite God, man cannot Living for God has filled the world with blood God to the brain and heart of man--millions who regard this book as a id = 38804 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 04 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures date = keywords = Bible; Christ; Christianity; Christians; Devil; England; Ghost; God; Holy; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; Joseph; Lord; New; Old; Satan; Testament; believe; child; good; great; man; nature; world summary = A man who loved this world, this life, the things of god who fought the darkness, the power of evil, the enemy of man. an infinitely good, wise and powerful God. The theologian says that what we call evil is for our benefit--that we done some good--not because they believed in gods and devils--but in But to-day no intelligent man believes in the existence of devils--no the good, man placed a god; back of the evil, a devil; back of health, The truth is that good and evil spirits--gods and devils--are beyond the But we do know how gods and devils, heavens and hells, have been made. the Devil, of Satan, of the Serpent, of the enemy of God and man, the It may be asked how I know that the Devil knew that Christ was God. My Again, I say that no sensible man in all the world believes in devils. id = 38805 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 05 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions date = keywords = Adam; Answer; Bible; Christ; Christianity; David; God; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; John; Jonah; Lord; Mary; Moses; Mr.; New; Old; Paine; Question; Talmage; Testament; Thomas; christian; man; scripture summary = of Immoral Books--"Assassinating" God--Mr. Talmage finds Nearly All the Invention of Modern Man''s Life?--Satisfactory Reasons for Not Believing that the Bible is inspired. Mr. Talmage knows that it is not necessary to understand the Bible in order to believe it. Sunderland, of this city, in his sermon on the assassination of Garfield, takes the ground that God permitted the murder for the purpose of opening the eyes He believes that God damns a man for his own glory; God, in his infinite justice, damns a good man on his to the Bible, it took this infinite God six days to make Is it possible that the God of Mr. Talmage could not have made man a success? According to the Bible, his God made man knowing that in with one exception, believed the Bible to be the inspired word of God, the man who was the exception lived--a believer in God, and a friend of man. id = 38806 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 06 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions date = keywords = Abraham; Archdeacon; Bible; Black; Cardinal; Catholic; Christ; Christianity; Church; Divine; Egypt; Father; God; Holy; Ingersoll; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Mr.; Nature; New; Old; Paul; Reply; Rome; St.; Testament; christian; man; religion; scripture; world summary = If the Bible is inspired, Jehovah, God of all worlds, actually said: kill his wife because she suggested the worshiping of some other God. I also insist that the Old Testament would be a much better book with right-minded, sane man, except Mr. Black, who now believes that a God of believe in the wrong God. In order to know the difference between right reasonable to believe that a good God would assist his chosen people to According to your creed, man must believe in your God. All You believe that Christ was God, that he was infinite in power. It is far better for a man to love his fellow-men than to love God. It Is it in accordance with reason that an infinitely good and loving God natural man cannot know the things of the spirit of God, because they id = 38807 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions date = keywords = Answer; Bible; Catholic; Christ; Christianity; Christians; Church; Delaware; Dr.; God; Ingersoll; Jesus; Judge; Lord; Mr.; New; Old; Question; Rev.; Testament; Thomas; Voltaire; good; man; right; scripture summary = Whiskey--Eulogy of Tobacco--Human Stupidity that Defies the Gods--Rev. Charles Deems--Jesus a Believer in a Personal Devil--The Man Christ. World?--Would an Infinite God make People who Need a Redeemer?--Gospel I believe in Man, Woman and Child--the Blessed Trinity of Life and Joy. I have said, and still say, that you have no right to endeavor by force thought it necessary to hear what any man said in order to answer him. 4. "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread repetition of the old story: That God made the world and a man, and the church forgive a man whom it thinks its God is waiting somewhat show that all men have an equal right to think, and that a man is only God made a poor world; that he made man and woman and put them in the Orthodox Christians say that a man must believe on Christ, must have id = 38808 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews date = keywords = Answer; Beecher; Bible; Blaine; Catholic; Christianity; Christians; Church; Cleveland; Colonel; Congress; Constitution; Dr.; England; General; God; Government; Ingersoll; Mr.; New; North; Old; President; Question; Shakespeare; South; States; Sunday; Testament; United; York; american; democratic; man; republican summary = time when every man, woman and child will enjoy every human right. In that State I think General Gresham is the coming man. I have no objection to people believing in any good thing--no Most people find great pleasure in thinking about and in believing good Christians--honest and noble people, but in my judgment, Mr. Beecher is the greatest man in the world who now occupies a pulpit. People who believe his way will probably think that he has for this world, and I hope the time will come when a civilized man But the great thing for the laboring man in the United States is --it wants free men; and a great many people in the Republican man is not happy so long as he knows that other good men and women The great thing is for the people to know the facts. id = 38809 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political date = keywords = Col; Congress; Constitution; Garfield; General; Government; Illinois; Ingersoll; Mr.; New; North; President; South; Southern; States; Tilden; Union; United; York; american; country; democratic; man; nation; party; republican summary = The Republicans of the United States demand a man who knows that The Republicans of the United States want a man who knows that this Democratic party at the North, thousands of millions of money were For sixteen years the country has been in the hands of that great party. No man should be elected President of our great country Republican party of the United States made this a free country. President of the United States, the Democratic party said: "We will not this was a nation; when the Republican party said we shall be free; party to-day says if you want to sell your goods to the Southern people, Tell the old man that the Republican party preserved the The Democratic party then said the Federal Government had a right to Nation and the flag forever!" And let that party stand by the great men id = 38810 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal date = keywords = Bliss; Boone; Bosler; Brady; Court; Davis; Dorsey; General; Government; Ingersoll; John; Miner; Mr.; New; Peck; Rerdell; States; Stephen; Vaile summary = Contracts--Pay on Discontinued Routes--Alleged False Affidavits--Right of Davis--His Alleged Children--Date of his Death--Testimony of Mr. Knight--Ink used in Writing the Will--Expert Evidence--Speechlessness Dorsey, Peck, Miner, and Boone were bidders; that certain routes said is that Mr. Dorsey either called this man Miner or described him as Try this case according to the evidence; and if you know that every man, On page 1406, Mr. Moore says that he went to Dorsey and got the money, not Dorsey ask Rerdell at the time he made that affidavit, "Did you Rerdell made the affidavit of 1881, Dorsey would have said, "I want that time--that this man Rerdell swears that he had the original letter-press W. Dorsey and ten thousand dollars for Peck, because the evidence shows On page 2234 Rerdell swears that affidavits of Peck and Dorsey were On page 2470 Rerdell swears that he did not give the books to Dorsey in id = 38811 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany date = keywords = Amendment; Bible; Chinese; Christ; Christianity; Christians; Church; Congress; Constitution; Court; England; God; Government; Ingersoll; Jehovah; Jersey; Jews; John; Justice; Moses; Mr.; New; Old; Paine; Rights; States; Supreme; Testament; United; York; know; man; religion summary = the United States Supreme Court pronouncing the Civil Rights Act when acting contrary to Law?--The Word "State" must include the People Much like People of other Religions--Teaching given Christian Children States could not be trusted to protect the rights of the colored man; I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any church, of Can you imagine an infinitely good God sending a man to hell to deny the existence of your God. Was he a good man? man who says that a God of love commanded the commission of these crimes "_According to the Old Testament, the God of the Christian world I do not believe that a God made this world, filled it with people and intelligent people do not believe in the existence of God. What I did The Improved Man will believe only in the religion of this world. id = 38812 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany date = keywords = America; Bible; Briggs; Christian; Colonel; Constitution; England; General; God; Ingersoll; Lincoln; Mr.; Nature; New; Republic; Sabbath; Shakespeare; Spain; States; United; Wagner; York; friend; good; great; life; love; man; world summary = the equal rights of man, the best thing that can be done is to destroy a reputation of any man who dares defend the great and generous dead. natural for the young man to dream of success, of a home, of a good, a men or gods can say--the right or wrong lives in results--in the nature think a thousand times more of a kind man than I do of an intelligent God''s best gift to man, and but for the Bible we could not know right in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian--possibly I believe him to be an honest man; right in some things and wrong in The intelligent and generous man who loves his fellow-men--who develops Fortunate the people where this good man lived, for they are all his if above and over all there be a God who loves the right, an honest man id = 38813 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes date = keywords = Belief; Bible; Christ; Christianity; Church; God; Ingersoll; Law; Liberty; Life; Man; Men; Mr.; New; Old; People; Rev; Testament; World; religion; volume summary = new Nation Born�Paine the Best of Political Writers�The "Crisis"�War Fathers in the good old Time�The iron Arguments that Christians Books�The Claim that all Moral Laws came from God through Incarnation�Was Christ God?�The Trinity Expounded�"Let us pray"�V. Man''s Life?�Satisfactory Reasons for Not Believing that the Bible is inspired. THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL''S OPENING PAPER THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL''S OPENING PAPER Old and New Testaments�On the Assertion that the Spread of Christianity World before Christ''s Advent�Respect for the Man Christ�The Dark Glad to Know that the Bible is only the Work of Man and that the New God do Nothing for this World?�The Universe a Blunder if Christianity Col. Ingersoll''s First Letter in The New York World�Under what when acting contrary to Law?�The Word "State" must include the People Report of the Case from the New York Times (note)�The Right to express of the New Testament�The Bible "not true but inspired"�The "Higher id = 8140 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother''s Grave, Etc., Etc. date = keywords = Adam; Bible; Christ; Church; Egypt; England; Father; God; Heaven; Hell; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Matthew; Moses; Mr.; New; Testament; believe; child; christian; good; great; man; world summary = And the Lord God said, Behold the man has become as one of us, to know mother ate an apple contrary to the command of an arbitrary God. A very pious friend of mine, having heard that I had said the world was God created the world and imposed upon men certain laws, and then let time protested and said, of course, let the man think, if you call that the man came to believe that he could please God by having read a few joy." He didn''t believe that God so loved the world that He intended Do you believe that it is right--that God made one man to work for Do you believe in a God that allowed a man to be Do you believe in a God that allowed a man to be In this book I read about God''s making the world and one man. id = 8389 author = Ingersoll, Robert Green title = Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest date = keywords = Calvin; Christ; France; God; Holy; Jesus; Jews; John; Lord; Mary; Mr.; New; Paine; States; Sunday; Thomas; United; Voltaire; York; child; christian; good; love; man; religion; right; think; world summary = of God, woman is the slave of man, and the sweet children are the wished to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. He said that Does any human being now believe that God made man of dust men wrote that it was right for a man to destroy the life of his wife In the old testament, when God got a man dead, He let take another man''s word and not what he thinks, but what God said to idea of going and telling a man a thing that if he does not believe he clothed the naked here; and God cannot send to eternal pain a man who No God has a right to create a man who is to be eternally damned. word of God. He was an honorable man, and told me to read the bible What man who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God? id = 38100 author = Inman, Thomas title = Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. date = keywords = Almighty; Ancient; Bible; Buddha; Buddhism; Christianity; Church; Creator; Devil; Egypt; England; God; Greeks; Heaven; Hebrews; Hindoo; India; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; John; Jupiter; London; Lord; Luke; Mary; Matt; Moses; Muni; New; Old; Paul; Persians; Romans; Rome; Sakya; Satan; Siddartha; Testament; christian; jewish; man summary = things; the so-called orthodox believe in the God Satan. wholly adopt, inasmuch as we believe that no faith of ancient times has the faithful as a proof of God''s regard to them, but that the laws, said an indistinct idea of a life after death, and when a great man dies, see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great so-called people of God. To them no knowledge of eternal life was given, recognition of the power of God to know, and even to punish man for, against the idea that a man who believes himself a disciple of the son generally allow that the ideas of Satan--a power opposed to that of God, to certain Christian stories by a philosopher, who said he believed them individuals whose god is nothing more than a man without universal power heaven believed in by the ancient Jews and the modern Christians. id = 47314 author = Jackson, William title = The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day date = keywords = Bacon; Cause; Creator; Design; Divine; Dr.; Essay; God; Hume; Huxley; Ibid; Idealism; Law; Man; Materialism; Matter; Mill; Moral; Mr.; Natural; Nature; Paley; Philosophy; Powell; Professor; Science; Sir; Spencer; Supreme; Theism; Theology; Universe; Vol; chapter; fact; form; human; idea; know; life; mind; note; power; reason; sense; theory; thing; world summary = the Universe, and especially in Man considered in his Moral Nature, his the chief primary fact of our human nature--the undeniable existence human works and natural things quite as completely as did the popular human minds, some may feel impressed by the contemplation of Nature in obviously he must accept) the natural-science idea of law, which looks a gill to the water, the eye to light, the mind to truth, human human knowledge of the natural world we live in--the other requires a of living creatures." "To know the actual nature of a thing," observes true nature and limits of human knowledge generally." the nature and laws of the material world, and by consequence to conception of the true distinction between the Animal and the Man. Apart from the fact that ultimate objects of instinct differ as widely form concerning it, it is not the less a fact of human nature: one of id = 621 author = James, William title = The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature date = keywords = Boston; Christ; Christianity; Dr.; Father; God; Holy; Infinite; Jesus; John; London; Lord; Mr.; New; Paris; Professor; Saint; Spirit; Starbuck; Tolstoy; York; christian; example; experience; fact; find; good; know; life; like; love; man; mind; nature; religion; religious; self; sense; soul; state; thing; time; way; world summary = religion for human life, I think we ought to look for the answer among "God is more real to me than any thought or thing or person. conscious of hating God, or man, or right, or love, and I know the mere natural animal man without a sense of sin; sometimes it means a religious experience, the fact that man has a dual nature, and is "The great central fact in human life is the coming into a immanence of God and the Divinity of man''s true, inner self." power had come into my life; that, indeed, old things had passed sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life certain kind of thing for the first time in his life. things: "I simply mean the _Science of God_, or the truths we know God, meaning only what enters into the religious man''s id = 20758 author = Jastrow, Morris title = The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria date = keywords = Adapa; Allatu; Anu; Ashur; Ashurbanabal; Assyria; Assyrians; B.C.; Babylon; Bau; Bel; Belit; Borsippa; Delitzsch; Dibbarra; Eabani; Etana; Euphrates; Gilgamesh; Gudea; Hammurabi; Ishtar; Jensen; Lagash; Marduk; Nabu; Nebuchadnezzar; Nergal; Nin; Ninib; Nippur; Nusku; Old; Parnapishtim; Ramman; Sargon; Shamash; Sin; Sippar; Tammuz; Tiâmat; Uruk; babylonian; god; semitic summary = old Bel of Nippur with the chief god of Babylon, that the original Sin, the moon-god over the sun deity in Babylonia, is the reckoning of the head of the great gods of the Babylonian and Assyrian pantheon The god Nabu (or Nebo) enjoys a great popularity in the Babylonian cult, temple in honor of the god, and the later Babylonian kings vie with one The continued existence of a god Bel in the Babylonian pantheon, despite city sacred to the great Bel. Another wall in Nippur was dedicated by this Samsu-iluna to a god whose king confesses his sins and makes an appeal to the great Babylonian god of the great gods, Bel, Ishtar, and Ea, that the time when they did not E-Sagila suggests to a Babylonian, naturally, the great temple of Marduk of the chief gods of the Assyrian pantheon, Marduk, Nabu, Sin, Ishtar, id = 31875 author = Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron) title = An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion date = keywords = Australia; Buddhism; Christianity; Dr.; Frazer; God; Höffding; Professor; community; fact; magic; man; prayer; religion summary = look upon the long history of religion as man''s search for God, and to religion alike: communion between man and God--the indispensable essence of religion, as is shown by the fact that gods, when they cease the worship of a god--by means of sacrifice and prayer--and of communion with God; next, the existence of society as a means of which fellow-man and God. Whether the process of evolution is moving to any end whatever, is a The history of religion is the history of man''s search for God. That religion, that there shall be a community of worshippers and a god religion--man, having attained to a higher morality, credits his gods the beginning, religion has been a social fact: the god has been the seeks God and communion with Him. What the science of religion Community, the, and fetiches, 122; and its gods, 135; and prayer, 146, id = 25931 author = Klein, Sydney T. (Sydney Turner) title = Science and the Infinite; or, Through a Window in the Blank Wall date = keywords = Ego; God; Physical; Reality; Space; Spiritual; Sun; Time; Transcendental; Triangle; Universe; Vesica; View; knowledge summary = that Time and Space have no existence apart from our Physical Senses; in the Physical Universe, and that Time and Space have no existence of an object formed by the sense of touch is so absolutely different entirely on sense perception, taking for granted that Time and Space times per second, may to our sense of sight be gradually slowed down and Space have no objective reality apart from our physical senses, second Physical Ego to gain fresh knowledge from its own Real In the preceding Views we have seen that Time and Space have no real temporary and Space-limited Human Physical Ego. Again, as the human mind forms a thought, clothes it in physical therefore Thoughts, are limited by Time and Space and therefore thoughts are limited by Time and Space and can only deal with finite our finite senses to Time and Space, and our consciousness dependent id = 48589 author = Kusel, Emil Edward title = Humanitarian Philosophy, 4th Edition date = keywords = Bible; God; humanitarian; man summary = kill is not a law of a kind and loving God. I also aimed to prove that Heretofore I lived a carnivorous life, always wondering why God created poor sentient things for human food but now, thank God, I realize, The so-called devout man wants to live and enjoy life, but he eats of custom of taking life blood, knowing that every man, woman and child, life--where is your merciful, loving, personal God? Q. Do not some people believe it is right to slay and eat lower animals? The Bible says: If an animal dieth of itself do not eat it but give it places and yet living apart from God. The Bible says: Reason is too high for a fool. The Bible says: The Spirit of God made Samson a murderer. The Bible says: There are many false lords and false gods the people The Bible says: God blessed every creature. id = 38016 author = Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi title = Chaitanya''s Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita date = keywords = Acharya; Bengal; Bhatta; Bhattáchárya; Bhágabat; Brahman; Brindában; Chaitanya; God; Gopal; Govinda; Hari; Jagannáth; Krishna; Master; Nityánanda; Pandit; Puri; Ray; Rámánanda; Sanátan; Sárvabhauma; Vaishnavs; Vide; Vishnu summary = Krishna!'' and followed the Master out of longing to gaze at Him. After a Master said to Rámánanda, "I wish to hear the discourse of Krishna from Master, as the love of Krishna had purged his mind [of its grossness]. Master bowed at the feet of the Puri, who embraced Him. For three days lovingly saluted his feet, while the Puri embraced Him. The Master said, "I long to live in thy company. In ecstasy of devotion the Master chanted Krishna''s The Dance before Jagannáth''s Car. Next day the Master took care to bathe with His followers before it was Glory to Krishna-Chaitanya!" At the sight of the Master''s me." The Master replied, "Ever serve Krishna, ever serve Vaishnavs, ever Krishna, to deliver all men by your appearance." The Master invoked God Master''s feet, with the cry of Krishna! Master was Krishna himself! Thus did the Master in love-madness for Krishna lament night and day. id = 12353 author = Lang, Andrew title = The Making of Religion date = keywords = Angus; Creator; Dr.; Ellis; Father; Footnote; Garcilasso; God; Herr; Hume; Huxley; Inca; Indians; Israel; Jehovah; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Pachacamac; Parish; Piper; Professor; Sir; Spencer; Spirit; Sun; Supreme; Tylor; Zulus; animism; australian; ghost; man; religion; savage summary = these gods became supreme, and, at last, was regarded as the one only God. Meanwhile man retained his belief in the existence of his own soul, follow Mr. Tylor''s example, and collect savage _beliefs_ about visions, phenomena helped to originate the savage belief in ''spirits,'' and when he an alien soul, ghost, spirit, or god, taking up its abode in a man, and On the theory of savage philosophy, as explained by Mr. Tylor himself, a man''s soul may leave his body and become visible to regard, like ancestor-worship, it differs from the belief in a Supreme nature and origin, things which would suggest to a savage his theory of On this theory ''the lowest savages'' are devoid of the idea of god or of in human affairs;'' which is not a Jesuit idea of God. In all missionary accounts of savage religion, we have to guard against savages, obscured later by ancestor-worship and ghost-gods, but not id = 14080 author = Lang, Andrew title = Custom and Myth date = keywords = Africa; Apollo; Aryan; Australians; Bushmen; Cronus; Earth; Eskimo; Goab; Greece; Greek; Heaven; Indians; Jason; Kalevala; M''Lennan; Max; Mr.; Muller; New; Pururavas; Red; Sanskrit; Tsui; Urvasi; Zealand; Zeus; early; man summary = years of study of Greek, Indian, and savage mythologies, I have become people in the savage state, as Smith and Brown are names of civilised a savage nature-myth, surviving in Greek religion, while the sequel is a ''Cupid and Psyche'' traces another Aryan myth among savage races, and of savage rite and belief is found very near the surface of ancient Greek mystery, set the Greeks dancing serpent-dances or bear-dances like Red savage ways and ideas, and the myths and usages of the educated classes first employed in the rites of a civilised people like the Greeks, and beast are on a level, and all savage myth makes men descended from Greek religion, and were older animal gods ever collected into the examines the myths of civilised peoples like the Greeks. of Mr. Muller interpret all the absurdities of Greek myth, the gods who id = 14576 author = Lang, Andrew title = Modern Mythology date = keywords = Apollo; Artemis; Cronos; Daphne; Dawn; Demeter; Dr.; Frazer; Greek; India; Mannhardt; Max; Mr.; Muller; Professor; Sun; Tiele; Tuna; Tylor; Vedic; death; myth summary = Mr. Max Muller alludes to a Maori parallel to the myth of Cronos. Mr. Max Muller observes that ''Mannhardt''s mythological researches have Where Mr. Max Muller found a myth of the Sun or of the Dawn, these scholars were The main cause was that whereas Mr. Max Muller explained Greek myths by etymologies of words in the Aryan or that the Dawn is not as great a factor in myth as Mr. Max Muller The plant-name, ''snake''s head,'' given as an example by Mr. Max Muller, needs no etymological explanation. accepting Max Muller''s explanation about the Sun-god and the Dawn, wo and rejecting the method of Mr. Max Muller, Professor Tiele now writes The letters of Mannhardt, cited in proof of his exact agreement with Mr. Max Muller about comparative philology, do not, as far as quoted, mention story, by Mr. Max Muller''s hypothesis) _the original meaning is lost_. id = 2832 author = Lang, Andrew title = Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) date = keywords = Africa; Ahone; Australia; Brahmanas; Bushmen; Cronus; Dr.; God; Great; Greece; Hesiod; Homer; Homeric; Ibid; Indians; Indra; Mr.; Muller; New; Pausanias; Red; Rig; Smith; Spencer; Strachey; Tylor; Veda; Vedic; Virginia; Zealand; Zeus; american; greek; man; myth; religion; savage summary = CHAPTER VI.--NON-ARYAN MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN. CHAPTER VIII.--INDIAN MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN. CHAPTER IX.--GREEK MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND MAN. and Prajapati--Greek myths of the origin of man--Their savage myth-makers were men with philosophic and moral ideas like their in Australian myth, men, gods, beasts, and things all shift shapes of sun and moon, like the myths of savages, start from the conception our chapter on "Savage Myths of the Origin of the World and of Man". In examining savage myths of the origin of man and of the world, In discussing the savage myths of the origin of the world and of man, we GREEK MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND MAN. Prajapati--Greek myths of the origin of man--Their savage analogues. Greek tradition of the savage myth that man was made of clay by some id = 32326 author = Lang, Andrew title = Tales of Troy and Greece date = keywords = Achilles; Agamemnon; Aias; Greeks; Hector; Helen; King; Menelaus; Paris; Perseus; Telemachus; Theseus; Trojans; Troy; Ulysses summary = palace of his father, King Laertes, but Ulysses, with his own hands, men stood to fight with sword and spear when there was a battle at sea. ''Come, then, let us be going,'' said Ulysses, ''for the night is late, and Now Ulysses saw Dolon as he came, and said to Diomede, ''Let us suffer Then the Trojans all with one voice said that Ulysses was the best man ship of Ulysses, like men wrecked on a desert island, who keep watch ''Tell me pray,'' said Ulysses, ''what land is this, and what men At last Ulysses told Telemachus how he had come home in a ship of the She prayed, and said, ''Father Zeus, King of Gods and men, loudly hast ''Look to my horses and man,'' said Theseus; ''I come to see your master.'' ''His ship we could burn, and his men we could slay,'' said Theseus; and id = 36794 author = Lang, Andrew title = Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) date = keywords = America; Apollo; Artemis; Athene; Australia; Baiame; Bushmen; Demeter; Dionysus; Dr.; Egypt; Greece; Greek; Hera; Hermes; Homer; Ibid; Iliad; Indra; Khoi; Manning; Max; Mr.; Müller; New; Osiris; Preller; Veda; Zeus; egyptian; european; god; indian; myth summary = Bushmen, like the Egyptians and Greeks, hand down myths abstract conceptions or the rude personal myths of gods such as A, the Myth comes in; the sky is a God; a Manitou dwelling in god was represented in human form, he was merely a little humming-bird, Thus he writes: "When the myth makes the god the son of the mother early human confusions of thought between man and beast and god, things true that the myths by no means always agree in representing the gods as Several myths of the origin of the gods have connection with the worship of him as a nature-god, an elemental deity, divinity, a nature-god, at the period when savage men mythically worship of the wolf.*** The character of Apollo as originally a sun-god and rites.** If Apollo was originally the sun-god, it is certain that the gods and goddesses"--deities made not only in the likeness of man, id = 216 author = Laozi title = The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics date = keywords = Heaven; Tao; great; man; thing summary = When we can lay hold of the Tao of old to direct the things 1. When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao). 5. The relation of the Tao to all the world is like that of the great 3. Hence the sage is able (in the same way) to accomplish his great to) conduct (a government) according to the Great Tao, what I should 2. The great Tao (or way) is very level and easy; but people love the 4. The great state only wishes to unite men together and nourish them; Tao has of all things the most honoured place. previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one 1. All the world says that, while my Tao is great, it yet appears 4. Therefore the sage knows (these things) of himself, but does not id = 39511 author = Leuba, James H. (James Henry) title = The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion date = keywords = Frazer; God; Magic; Professor; animal; behaviour; belief; life; man; power; religion summary = the series, there to show how Religion originated in the mind of man, what by Religion ''propitiation, or conciliation of powers superior to man, origin of Religion, it is assumed that the god-concept precedes, in the intervals; whereas in man, as far as Magic and Religion are concerned, the results while man develops the magical art and Religion _despite_ the should have plunged man in the darkness of primitive Magic and Religion, ORIGIN OF THE IDEAS OF GHOSTS, NATURE-BEINGS AND GODS ORIGIN OF THE IDEAS OF GHOSTS, NATURE-BEINGS AND GODS Most authorities hold that Magic preceded Religion, and that considerations regarding the psychological nature of Magic and Religion, The Independence of Religion from Magic.=--The following psychological relation of Magic to Religion, and also by the psychology of belief. instance of the combination of Magic with Religion. Magic and from Religion, it is implicitly present in mechanical behaviour. id = 30900 author = Lewis, Joseph title = The Tyranny of God date = keywords = God; Nature; child; death; life; live; man; pain; tyranny summary = present human species after the life and death of an illimitable number child the parents would not harm, Nature tortures and God kills! making him a Man. Disease is one of Nature''s cardinal forces. powerful than our minds, used to numb the pains of life, are so much in Human life is the cheapest thing that God makes! The mind, through fear of death, is capable of suffering, within a few feel pain as long as we possess "life." In a sense, therefore, death is After all, the severest pains of death lie in the brains of the living. We live our life by material means. that Nature forces him to live. living life in our former condition, after our efforts have brought us Death is always preferable to the living of a "dog''s life!" And yet, and chaotic forces of Nature, so as to make life and living a little id = 33825 author = Lewis, Joseph title = An Atheist Manifesto date = keywords = Bible; God; disease; life; man; nature summary = Many ask what difference does it make whether man believes in a God or This diabolical scheme could only come from a "merciful" God. As an illustration of this concept of primitive man in this respect is To nature the germs of disease, as a form of life, are equally as life--the germs of disease or man--which one is preferred by nature; If all man needed upon earth was a "knowledge of God," then why the our "duty" to God. It has made man prostitute the most precious things of life--it has made destiny once he frees himself from the myth of a tyrant God. Ingersoll best expressed man''s inventions and their uses when he said And does not the Bible God place a curse upon man for the knowledge that You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Is it to be God or Man? id = 18191 author = Lightfoot, J. B. (Joseph Barber) title = Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" date = keywords = A.D.; Apocalypse; Asia; Canon; Christ; Church; Epistles; Eusebius; Fourth; God; Gospel; Greek; H.E.; Ignatius; Irenæus; John; Lord; Mark; Matthew; Melito; Papias; Paul; Peter; Polycarp; Rome; Supernatural; Testament summary = relation of this quotation from the Fourth Gospel to Papias any remarks, translation of [Greek: ouden hêmarte] in an important passage of Papias favourable specimen of his critical work, our author frequently refers instance, that Papias did not refer to our St Mark''s Gospel--does not Eusebius to which our author refers in this note relates how Polycarp silence of Eusebius respecting early witnesses to the Fourth Gospel is cases, that Papias ''uses'' this Gospel, or that he ''sets down facts from'' the writer of the Gospel;'' and the authority whom Papias here quotes is apparently considers that Papias did not here refer to a Greek Gospel at quoted the Fourth Gospel several times by name as the work of John the ''The Fourth Gospel is (the work) of John, one of the (personal) The passage of Eusebius to which our author refers in this note id = 14672 author = MacCulloch, J. A. (John Arnott) title = The Religion of the Ancient Celts date = keywords = Arthur; Bran; Britain; Celts; Cæsar; Cúchulainn; D''Arbois; Danann; Druids; Earth; Elysium; Fionn; Folk; Fomorians; Gaul; Holder; Ireland; Joyce; Les; Lore; Loth; Lug; Mag; Manannan; Matres; Märchen; Reinach; Samhain; Skene; Stokes; Strabo; Sébillot; Taliesin; Tuatha; Welsh; celtic; christian; god; irish; roman summary = darkness, and in the divinities sun-gods and dawn-goddesses and a host these, while the Roman gods, by whose names Cæsar calls the Celtic the Roman god is added a descriptive Celtic epithet or a word derived anthropomorphic form of an earlier animal god, like the wolf-skin of Earth-god, the Celtic Dispater or Dagda, whose consort the goddess divinities, hostile to the gods of the Celts or regarded as dark But myth-making man easily developed the suggestion; gods were like men Celtic gods and heroes are often called after their mothers, regarded as gods, though certain Druids may have been divine priests, gods superseded goddesses, the divine priest-king would take the place Celtic Earth-god was lord of the dead, and that he probably took the there existed a dog totem or god, not of the Celts, but of a pre-Celtic of a divine king connected with an oak and sacred well, the god or id = 39455 author = Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title = Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago date = keywords = God; James; Prof.; life; man; truth summary = In his lecture on, "Is Life Worth Living," the professor admits that he Life is worth living, in short, if man is unseen world and the immortality of man? existence of a God or of a life after death. man, as theology makes it the creature of God. You see that after all, In other words, God may be true or not, a future life may be such arguments as he uses to prop up the belief in God and immortality answer, "Man said, let there be a God, and there was one." This is is indispensable to make life worth living, or to help make the world will fear the opening of the books; it will be God. And how do we know that things will be better in the unseen world? In conclusion: Not God, nor the unseen world, but Truth is the sovereign id = 45068 author = Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title = The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? Illustrated date = keywords = Adler; Apollo; Christianity; Christmas; Europe; God; Jesus; John; Jones; Mary; Mr.; New; Pagan; Paul; Son; Testament; christian; illustration; man; world summary = like the above that can prove a man a God. Has Jesus kept his promise? early Christian times, it is not Jesus, but a lamb, which is bleeding The early Fathers made this Jew admit that Jesus was the Son of God. Of course, the admission was a forgery. Paul''s time, that is to say, the earliest Jesus known to the churches single saying of Jesus in the gospels which is quoted by Paul in his religion of Jesus alone can save the world. There was ignorance in the world before Christianity; has Jesus faith in the world when "the son of man cometh"; and it was Jesus who called upon the Christian world to think of Jesus as a man," Dr. Barton replies with considerable temper: "To date people''s right to Jesus is historical because a man by the name of Paul says so, though id = 45483 author = Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title = The Story of My Mind; Or, How I Became a Rationalist date = keywords = Calvinism; Christianity; Ethical; God; Jesus; Movement; Societies; christian; church; life; man; religion; world summary = Jesus was God, neither is there any that he was morally perfect. for immortality proves another and an endless life, the desire for God, "Much less can men not professing the Christian religion be saved, _be fear of the gods and their priests--a soldier to help man break his that only faith in God and the hope of a future life can enable us to out of joint in order to justify God''s way to man. establish a relation of some kind between God and the world''s life. heaven, then, it can not be all right with the world, even if "God''s in fatalism of "God''s in His Heaven, all''s right with the world" idea, when Rationalism and the World''s Great Religions. nature of a God whom no man has ever seen, heard or comprehended. and in a society where man, not woman, is the ruler, God is a "he." id = 6107 author = Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title = The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? date = keywords = Adler; Apollo; Christianity; Christmas; Europe; God; Jesus; John; Jones; Mary; Mr.; New; Pagan; Paul; Son; Testament; christian; footnote; illustration; man; world summary = Christianity.] Our answer to the question, Is Jesus a Myth? there was a man called Jesus, who said many helpful things, and led an like the above that can prove a man a God. Has Jesus kept his promise? early Christian times, it is not Jesus, but a lamb, which is bleeding The early Fathers made this Jew admit that Jesus was the Son of God. Of course, the admission was a forgery. the miracle-working Jesus of the gospels was not known in Paul''s time, There was ignorance in the world before Christianity; has Jesus faith in the world when "the son of man cometh"; and it was Jesus who called upon the Christian world to think of Jesus as a man," Dr. Barton replies with considerable temper: "To date people''s right to Jesus is historical because a man by the name of Paul says so, though id = 29893 author = Menzies, Allan title = History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems date = keywords = Ahura; Arabia; Aryan; B.C.; Babylonia; Buddha; Buddhism; China; Christianity; Egypt; God; Greece; India; Islam; Israel; Jehovah; Jews; Mahomet; Mr.; Persia; Rome; Semites; chapter; early; egyptian; footnote; great; greek; jewish; religion; roman; semitic; worship summary = animals--The great Gods--Mythology--The state religion . Growth of Greek gods--Stones, animals, trees--Greek religion Roman religion was different from Greek--The earliest gods of great gods--Sacred persons--Roman religion legal rather than religion is the "worship of higher powers from a sense of need"! needs, then, which led men to make gods of the great powers of earth worshipped by early man--fetishes, spirits, the powers of nature. kind of religion, and the minor nature-gods to another, the thought Dynasties of Gods.--In the history of Egyptian religion one set of worship of the light-gods of Egyptian religion was fitted to lead the of a living God; but the system of a book-religion has in it the Aryan religions, it is true, arrange their gods when the time comes and fetishism; the gods are great beings, and religion consists in Now this form of religion, in which several gods are id = 38375 author = Mitchell, Logan title = Religion in the Heavens; Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures date = keywords = Abraham; Bible; Christ; Christianity; Church; Egypt; Egyptians; Europe; God; India; Jehovah; Jesus; Jews; John; Jupiter; Lord; Moses; Nature; New; Paul; St.; Sun; Testament; christian; jewish; man; priest; time summary = the light of Nature and reason--to degrade and crush the human mind in priest-led fanatic has of his God (for instance the Jewish one), form a THE ignorance of the natural causes of the effects which man sees around times the Christian priests performed a similar miracle in favor of the about 900 years after the pretended time of Moses.* If a man, without the Christians, in after times destroy the work abovementioned, and leave his "Natural History?" Because he did monstrous credulity of calling such a book the word of God? with what is called an "immortal soul,"* our Christian priests have ever miscellany called the New Testament should be the new Will of God. The amount of moral evil done by this fable, is enormous beyond all following observations:--If, says he, God deigned to make himself a man, or Nature, has made man invent deities as causes of the effects he sees id = 36271 author = Moss, Arthur B. title = Nature and the Gods From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures date = keywords = Jahveh; god; man; nature summary = Nature, from a thing wrought by the skill and labor of man. Naturally enough man''s first objects of worship were fetishes--gods of down before fetishes, man transferred his worship to gods and goddesses Neither Nature nor the gods taught man to be truthful, honest, just, imaginations of men, and a man''s idea of god is invariably the exact If yes, what kind of god was man indebted to? intelligent mind; others that Nature and men could not have come by Man simply moulds natural objects into But what experience has man of god? Man does not know god as a designer or and he therefore cannot reasonably say that god is the designer of Now, either god does not wish man to without, either from Nature or the gods, that he has achieved such An infinite and all-powerful god cannot need the assistance of man; id = 43728 author = Moss, Arthur B. title = Natural Man date = keywords = God; man; nature; people summary = fairly at the facts of nature; to observe man under various aspects; life with his enemies, the destructive lower animals and his fellow men, and to find in the course of years that a higher form of man has evolved general truth of the Darwinian theory, our idea of the origin of man uncertain sound concerning man''s progress in the world and the means by As a civilised creature man is not many centuries proofs that man many ages ago lived in "holes in the earth," and went man was not depraved by nature is seen by the fact that in the general nor the love of cleanliness is natural to man, but only the capacity of Having then all these bad qualities of nature, how is it that man has They were told that God made man. When the sceptical man had a chance of life, his advance towards id = 32006 author = Muir, Pearson M''Adam title = Modern Substitutes for Christianity date = keywords = Appendix; Christianity; Christians; Church; Divine; Faith; Father; God; Humanity; Jesus; Lord; Man; Mr.; Son; Spirit; morality; religion summary = instil in its place a life of duty, and of faith in God and man, and I expected of Christians is the highest and the best that human nature Christianity of Christ, prevails, will mankind be morally and maintain that Christianity in attributing Personality to God makes Him The imagination that the Christian God is a Personality like ourselves, God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ?[15] Can it be doubted that idolatry, the Man Christ Jesus''?[18] The Religion of Humanity, so faith in a Righteous and Loving God, and in a Life of man beyond the No doubt, belief in God is not confined to Christian countries: worship It is Christ Who gives life to the thought of God. It is the Word made Flesh that makes the Eternal Word more real. Christian Christ seems not so much a humanised God as an If Jesus Christ is a God, id = 16996 author = Muir, William, Sir title = Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans date = keywords = Christianity; God; Gospel; Hindu; Hinduism; India; Islam; Koran; Lord; Medina; Mohammed; Moslem; Sen; Veda; christian; religion; sidenote summary = [Sidenote: The Christian''s duty in relation to the subject.] [Sidenote: Their religion is Nature-worship.] [Sidenote: Varuna the only divinity possessed of pure and elevated identify the human soul with God. And the chief end of man was to seek world by wisdom knew not God." O, that India would learn the much-needed [Sidenote: Hindu theology compared with Christian.] [Sidenote: Conception of God.] Christian is continually shocked by the Hindus ascribing all sin to God every Hindu is the following: "Where there is faith, there is God." [Sidenote: Advance of Christianity in India.] [Sidenote: Islam planted by aid of material force.] [Sidenote: Alternatives offered to the conquered nations: Islam, the [Sidenote: Al Kindy contrasts the Christian confessor with the Moslem [Sidenote: Requirements of Islam: prayer. [Sidenote: Principal Fairbairn on home-life under Islam.] [Sidenote: Islam.] [Sidenote: Christianity compared by Christ to the works of nature.] [Sidenote: Islam the work of man; Christianity the work of God.] id = 45823 author = Newman, Charles Robert title = Essays in Rationalism date = keywords = Charles; Locke; Mr.; Newman; Robert; principle; reason; truth summary = Of Charles Robert Newman, until the death of his brother, the Cardinal, By "truth" you mean the ascertained existence of any idea or thing, principles are the ground whereon we build in our reasonings; all that certain ideas or things, and reason, who forms propositions suggested They are perceived by us to be true by an act of reason called that first principles of reason must needs be, I must speculate for aimed to realise a certain first principle of reason, which I shall experience, and no more belongs to first principles of reason than to is, first principles of reason are merely the result of one of those principles derived from the various use of the word reason--which reasoning--a word proper to demonstrative truth--seems to be nothing science and of worldly business, reason is the judge of all truth To the rights of reason belongs a certain degree of power, both in id = 38485 author = Newton, John, M.R.C.S.E. title = Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols date = keywords = Ancient; Baal; Fig; God; Greek; Hindoo; Isis; Jews; London; Mary; Moor; Plate; Rome; Venus; assyrian; christian; egyptian; emblem; figure; king; represent summary = Fig. 2 is a Buddhist emblem; the two fishes forming the circle represent Is a copy of figures given in Bryant''s Ancient Mythology, plates xiii., figure represents two emblems of the male creator, a man and trident, Fig. 1 represents a symbol frequently met with in ancient architecture, Figure 14 is a symbol frequently seen in Greek churches, but appears to Fig. 2 represents Venus standing on a tortoise, whose symbolic import Figures 44, 45, are ancient designs, in which the male and female represents a male and female figure dancing before the mystic palm-tree, Figures 72, 73, represent an ancient Christian bishop, and a modern They represent ornaments held in the hands of a great female figure, Figure 121 represents also a worshipper before the barred female symbol, Figure 159 represents the various forms symbolic of Juno, Isis, Parvati, Figure 168 represents two Egyptian deities in worship before an emblem id = 40981 author = Nicholson, William title = The Doubts of Infidels Or, Queries Relative to Scriptural Inconsistencies & Contradictions date = keywords = Christ; Christians; David; God; Lord; Pharaoh; lordship summary = Lordships apprehend, that, for want of better arguments, we shall be When the unbelievers affirm that a just God could not punish Pharaoh God came to Balaam at night and said unto him, "If the men come appears the man after God''s own heart, at the taking of the city of third day after Saul''s death, a young man came out of the camp from idol of the Christians, this man after God''s own heart, embrue his hands man after _God''s own heart!_ What an impiety, say the infidels, to the Joshua was not written till after the time of David, and by an unknown David, by the instigation of the Lord, numbered the people-of David to number them;" but God was displeased with this thing, and David repenting, was offered from God his As few even of the Christians have faith enough to believe id = 3743 author = Paine, Thomas title = The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason date = keywords = Age; Almighty; Bible; Christ; God; Israel; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; Joshua; Judah; Lord; Matthew; Moses; New; Paine; Reason; Samuel; Saul; Testament summary = thing at that time to believe a man to have been celestially begotten; shame at calling such paltry stories the word of God. As to the account of the creation, with which the book of Genesis opens, Did the book called the Bible excel in purity of ideas and expression person is; for the Creator is the Father of All. The first four books, called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, do not give the Bible; and I begin with what are called the five books of Moses, years after the death of Moses; as men now write histories of things point that the book proves is that the author lived long after the time Jerusalem at this day; meaning the time when the book of Joshua was confusion, contradiction, and cruelty in this pretended word of God. The first book of Kings begins with the reign of Solomon, which, id = 21533 author = Pascal, Théophile title = Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution date = keywords = Book; Church; Ego; Egypt; Footnote; God; Karma; Law; Saint; Universe; body; consciousness; evolution; form; human; life; man; nature; physical; reincarnation; soul; state; time; world summary = Manifested, God and the Universe, the soul and the body, are more [Footnote 3: Present-day man possesses four bodies of increasing [Footnote 25: The personalities or new bodies created by the soul, on [Footnote 37: When human evolution is completed, man passes the for man a single body for which God creates a single soul and to which these form a new astral body; the soul, clothed in these two sheaths, and animal souls[83] to existence in new physical bodies; the rebirths human soul into the body of a brute, did however exist during the in the transmigration of human souls into animal bodies. in the transmigration of human souls into animal bodies. affirms that the soul exists before coming into the present body, and [Footnote 88: One, here means the "life atoms" of a man''s body.] [Footnote 265: The Ego (soul) in the causal body.] id = 45053 author = Phelips, Vivian title = The Churches and Modern Thought An inquiry into the grounds of unbelief and an appeal for candour date = keywords = Appendix; Bible; Bishop; Buddha; Christianity; Church; Darwin; Dr.; England; Evolution; Faith; God; Gospels; Holy; Huxley; Ibid; Japan; Jesus; John; London; Lord; Man; Mr.; Nature; New; Old; Paul; Professor; Resurrection; Rev.; Saviour; Science; St.; Testament; Virgin; christian; religion summary = the long history of man and his animal origin; the reign of natural articles of the Christian Faith, and who would leave the Church if if we are Christians, let us assume that Christ, as man, believed He his work on True Christian Religion, "received anything appertaining the fact that, ages before the Christian era, certain miracles were causing well-informed men and women to lose faith in Christianity. of the Christian; the fact remains that beliefs once held by devout study of ancient and even modern non-Christian [118] beliefs. latest Christian theory, with the further advance of God''s revelation), The conservative Christian believes that man was originally endowed it should be borne in mind that, although a man cannot be a Christian with the far more humane and moral conduct of men in pre-Christian been worshipped by the Christian Church as the immortal Son of God, id = 11015 author = Picton, J. Allanson (James Allanson) title = Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern date = keywords = Eternal; God; Greek; Pantheism; Spinoza; Universe; footnote; man; pantheistic; religion; sidenote summary = God to be All in All, it does not follow that Pantheism must hold a man, [Sidenote: Pantheism as a Religion almost Entirely Modern.] common thought, an ultimate and eternal Being which included gods as [Sidenote: A World Drama or Process is a Human, not a Divine Aspect of [Sidenote: Suggestive of Pantheism, but not such in Spinoza''s Sense.] Modern Pantheism as a religion begins with Spinoza. [Sidenote: Changes In Theories of Matter since Spinoza''s time.] soul a finite Mode of God''s infinite attribute of thought, while both indicating his idea of God. In his view, then, man is a finite mode of sense in which each man, being an eternal thought of God, has an aspect like God, could contemplate the infinite Universe all at once, and have that the human mind is part of the infinite intellect (thought) of God; [Sidenote: Why Pantheism as a Religion was called Modern.] id = 38303 author = Pringle, Allen title = Ingersoll in Canada: A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others date = keywords = Archbishop; Bible; Bystander; Christianity; Church; God; House; Ingersoll; Lord; Mr.; Toronto; Wendling; christian; man summary = "To assert that Christianity communicated to man moral truths previously to determine precisely its theological status, or what are Mr. Wendling''s positions, doctrinally, in reference to Christianity. in the moral argument,--in conscience in man as showing the existence Mr. Wendling''s next argument for the existence of a personal God is the Mr. Wendling''s next argument to prove the existence of a personal God That conscience is _innate_ in man, and a God-given faculty, instead of yearnings" of man''s nature, thought by Christians to prove a God as Christianity," in the face of what the "Word of God" cheerfully tells Contra_: "No man hath seen God at any time." "I am the Lord, I change we will have left "no nature, no God, no man, no matter" (it would be as an argument for the existence of a beneficent God, Christian Theists than the Christian theory that there are two existences--God and the id = 12255 author = Reisner, George Andrew title = The Egyptian Conception of Immortality The Ingersoll Lecture, 1911 date = keywords = Egypt; Empire; Horus; Osiris; egyptian; life summary = word, Egypt presents the most ancient race whose manner of life Egyptian ideas in regard to the future life is based on funerary meeting-place where the living may bring offerings to the dead. offering place, the texts are magical formulas which, properly the burial place, the texts are magical formulas to be used by custom of periodic offerings and the use of magical texts grew the use of magical texts in the burial chamber,--the so-called god-man, who as Horus was king on earth, with the father of Horus, the dead god of the earth, Osiris. Osiris; (3) the swathed mummy comes into general use in burials. The increasing importance of Abydos as the burial place of Osiris underworld, in which Osiris is king, is worked out in great take the place of the dead in the fields of Earu when Osiris as Every dead man is Osiris, and no doubt carried with him words id = 46986 author = Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer) title = The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence date = keywords = Bible; Christ; Christianity; David; Dr.; Galilee; God; Gospel; Herod; James; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; John; Joseph; Josephus; Judea; Lord; Luke; Mark; Mary; Matthew; Messiah; New; Paul; Peter; Pilate; Synoptics; Testament; christian; jewish; roman summary = Theodor Keim, a German-Christian writer on Jesus, says: "The passage "The very names of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, incarnate Word of John, nor the demi-god of Matthew and Luke. of the church Christians believed that Jesus was simply a man--the Religion" says: "According to the Synoptics, Jesus is baptized by John, Matthew: "Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we Matthew: "He [Jesus] asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus following day Nathanael said to Jesus, "Thou art the Son of God; the sons of God. Referring to Christ''s claim, a Jewish writer says: Matthew, Luke and John: "Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, According to Mark Christ is a man; according to Matthew and Luke, was the original Gospel of Matthew, represented Jesus as saying, id = 51793 author = Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title = A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes date = keywords = Ages; Aristotle; Athens; B.C.; Buddhism; Calvin; Cent; Christianity; Church; Cicero; Dr.; Egypt; Eng; England; English; Europe; France; Germany; Gesch; Geschichte; God; Gods; Greece; Hist; India; Inquisition; Islam; Israel; Italy; Jesus; Jews; John; Lea; Lectures; Lit; Luther; Meyer; Middle; Mosheim; Mr.; Müller; Paris; Plato; Pope; Protestantism; Reformation; Religion; Renaissance; Renan; Rome; Sokrates; Spain; Tiele; catholic; christian; french; greek; history; italian; jewish; protestant; roman summary = Like most works on religious and intellectual history written in the nature of general criticism of any story or doctrine, one such the Nature-Gods of the Veda can belong only to a later period in in our hands, the man who was without religion and God in some form Nature-power, cannot in early any more than in later times have with a common ancient superstition, seen in Arab and Greek history people, the plural name Elohim, "Powers" or "Gods" (in general, things religious philosophies set up by the priests of four Gods of water, forces and phenomena of Nature in the early way as Gods or Powers, but of form to the Greek Gods, where the early Romans, leaving all new intellectual life is set up from without, Christian thought is from meaning at all times practical enmity to Christian doctrine, God, the author of peace, and his holy law." Later English history id = 52160 author = Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title = A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes date = keywords = Abbé; Bacon; Bible; Bishop; Bolingbroke; Bruno; Charles; Christianity; Church; Collins; Descartes; Diderot; Dr.; England; English; Essay; Europe; France; Galileo; Germany; God; Hist; Hobbes; Holland; Hume; Jesus; John; Kant; Letter; Life; Locke; London; Lord; Louis; Mr.; Nature; Newton; Owen; Paine; Paris; Pope; Protestant; Reason; Religion; Revolution; Rousseau; Shaftesbury; Sir; Spain; Spinoza; States; Strauss; Testament; Thomas; Trinity; Voltaire; William; catholic; christian; french; history; scripture; work summary = be the opinion of good wits that the particular religion of Christians writes as a deist against atheists, hardly as a believing Christian. the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, a weighty attack on the critical and rationalizing work of the deistical generation could Essays on Morality and Natural Religion (published anonymously, A generally rationalistic influence is to be noted in the works known French freethinking book of the Regency period was the work of follows in time as in thought, only beginning his great work and after 1789 the new freethinking works run to critical and ethical Religion, probably written early in his life, where the rational case (1775); Count Dandolo, author of a French work on The New Men (1799); which now deism, then Christianity, then a new religion, seems to Reasonings of the Christian Religion; and the MS. Reasonings of the Christian Religion; and the MS. id = 30709 author = Robinson, Arthur William title = God and the World: A Survey of Thought date = keywords = Darwin; God; Life; Lord; Romanes; Sir; great; matter; mind; nature summary = life, of man, of history, of God. So again, the size of an age can be determined by the size of its if it might be, of the beginnings of things: of matter and life; of the all natural things are ordered to an end."[1] They were fully prepared ''originating Mind'' to be thought of as having states produced by things natural selection, he said: "There is a grandeur in this view of life, "The old argument from design in nature as given by Paley," he wrote, immediate action of an entirely good and beneficent God. Is it then to be thought incredible that the order of the world should The discovery that all plant and animal life is developed from living question to point to the fact that in Nature ''new elements are making the truth--I maintain that life is not a form of {83} energy, that it id = 16942 author = Romanes, George John title = Thoughts on Religion date = keywords = Christianity; Darwin; God; M.A.; Mr.; Rev.; Romanes; Science; Theism; argument; christian; fact; mind; nature; religion summary = that, as human volition is a cause in nature, therefore all causation is the moral sense is the result of a purely natural evolution[8], and this observable _facts_ of nature, without reference to the intellectual hypothesis of mind in nature is now logically proved to be as ''spiritualism''--or the theory which would suppose that mind is the cause thought having for its object the explanation of natural phenomena by natural phenomenon is, from a scientific point of view, no explanation reveals God while man misrepresents Him. There is still one other fact of a very wide and general kind presented these facts, this Mind does not show that it is of a nature which in man fact, and yet the spirit of Christianity may be true in substance--i.e. it may be the highest ''good gift from above'' as yet given to man. the Christian differs from the ''natural man'' in having a spiritual organ id = 19003 author = Romanes, George John title = A Candid Examination of Theism date = keywords = Fiske; Flint; Force; God; Matter; Mill; Mr.; Professor; Spencer; Theism; argument; deity; mind summary = spurious theory, yet his Argument from the fact of our having a moral sense mere fact of their presence, point to the existence of a God as to their We have first the argument drawn from the existence of the human mind. are: an eternal mind is, as far as the present argument is concerned, a _past_, but to proofs of the _ever-present_ mind and reason in nature. The supposed evidence from which the existence of mind in nature is of nature as to a fact which cannot to his mind be conceivably explained by Mind, even supposing it to exist, caused the observable products by any naturally make this objection to Cosmic Theism as presented by Mr. Fiske--viz., that the argument on which this philosopher throughout relies natural causes does not actually _disprove_ the possible existence of an argument which they would establish to an intelligent cause of nature would id = 33677 author = Royce, Josiah title = The Sources of Religious Insight date = keywords = God; James; experience; human; insight; life; man; need; reason; religion; religious; salvation; social; source; way summary = danger--whoever, I say, thus views our life, holds that man needs experience of the individual human being is a source of religious revelation as the main source of religious insight, states his case is James''s way of defining the objects of religious experience. Now James''s whole view of religious experience differs in many ways man needs salvation are these: You must find that human life has some life, and of the need of salvation, naturally arises in the experience our social experience as a source of religious insight. our social experience as a source of religious insight. source of religious insight, any way in which we can define the true of religious insight in terms of our social experience. reason is, in fact, a source of religious insight to many people who some spiritual unity and reasonable life such as the loyal man''s cause id = 37876 author = Rydberg, Viktor title = Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland, Vol. 1 date = keywords = Aryans; Asas; Asgard; Asia; Borgar; East; Edda; Europe; Franks; Frey; Gudmund; Gulveig; Hadding; Halfdan; Heimdal; Helge; Hist; Loke; Mimer; North; Nos; Odin; Romans; Saxo; Svipdag; Teutons; Thor; Trojan; Troy; Vans; Völuspa; german; teutonic summary = Saxo also tells that Odin''s son, Balder, was chosen king by the Thus it followed of necessity that Odin, the chief of the Teutonic gods, Odin in the Teutonic mythology is the father and ruler of the gods, Teutons worshipped Odin-Priamus-Hermes as their chief god, and since a on native northern traditions concerning the heathen god Odin, the ruler the mythological songs and traditions in regard to the god Odin who his saga, as told by Saxo, Thor holds his protecting hand over Halfdan _devas_, from which all the sons of Odin and gods of Asgard received the existed in Saxo''s time mythic traditions or songs which related that all Saxo _Hist._, 33), and with her becomes the father of the son Hadding standpoint of Teutonic mythology it is a world war; and Völuspa calls it Saxo (_Hist._, i.) relates that at the time when King Hadding reigned id = 34804 author = Réville, Albert title = Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru date = keywords = Acosta; America; Aztecs; Capac; Central; Cortes; Cuzco; Garcilasso; Incas; Lib; Mexico; Peru; Prescott; Quetzalcoatl; Spaniards; Sun; Vol; mexican; peruvian; religion summary = The religions of Mexico and Peru, and the special importance similarly, the religions of Mexico and Peru (for the empire of the Incas edifice near the great temple of Mexico, where the supreme deities of revealing god, the protector of the Aztec nation, took the human form disembarked in Peru, the great Inca, Huayna Capac, had but recently human life in the name of religion, which finally ruined the Incas. eyes throughout the audience, for no man looks upon the face of the Sun. It seems that the Incas possessed "the art of royal majesty" in a high become the Sun and Moon, represented by their Inca high-priest and his Inca Viracocha denied that the Sun was God;[66] and according to a story official and imperial deities, I must speak of two great Peruvian gods as the chief god of the religion in honour before that of the Incas rose that the civilizations and religions of Mexico and Peru are id = 38446 author = Sabatier, Auguste title = Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History date = keywords = Bible; Christianity; Church; Father; God; Gospel; Israel; Jesus; Paul; Protestantism; Spirit; christian; form; jewish; life; man; nature; religion; religious summary = to the two poles of the religious life; for in all true piety man Religion is simply the subjective revelation of God in man, and revelation is religion objective in God. It is the relation of subject religious life the revelation of God in order to constitute it into a with the progress of the moral and religious life which God begets and nothing moral in human life that is not truly religious. This perfect relation between God and my soul, this supreme religious relation between God and man, and if Christianity is that life carried discipline, religiously faithful to the principle of Christian piety, religious or moral knowledge--God, the Good, the Beautiful--these are of religion, _i.e._ God. Observe the natural and spontaneous movement of piety: a soul feels of religious life, not to the objective order of science. religious notion of God it is not the metaphysical nature--it is the id = 31608 author = Saltus, Edgar title = The Lords of the Ghostland: A History of the Ideal date = keywords = Avesta; Bel; Brahm; Buddha; Christ; Egypt; Footnote; Gotama; Israel; Jahveh; Jesus; Jews; Moses; Ormuzd; Rome; Zeus; god; man summary = world, poetry was a term that meant discourse of the gods. From it came the grandiose gods of Greece and Rome. came other gods, a whole host, powers of light and powers of darkness, which, set among the people, all might mount and at whose summit gods are four great gods diversely represented yet originally identical, from which all other gods are gone, one divinity still lingers. and return suggest--was the deity, the one really existing god. "The people of the age of the son of man shall rejoice and establish things yielded, even the gods.[28] But like the Shem of the Jews, it awake, and into which all things, the human, the divine, gods and gods, and Israel from all other people, to make the one unique and the divinity, even with Pan, who was a very great god. With the gods, Rome gathered the creeds of the world, set them id = 31920 author = Sellars, Roy Wood title = The Next Step in Religion: An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance date = keywords = Christianity; Church; God; Greeks; Jesus; Paul; Protestantism; Testament; christian; day; human; idea; life; man; nature; religion; science; social; thing; time; view; world summary = The coming phase of religion will reflect man''s power new view of man and nature which, in its essentials, has come to stay, adoration religion may have been in man''s early days upon this earth, religion ignored reason and slighted many sides of man''s nature, it world concretely, {22} and mainly in terms of human life, because they In this way, the gods were born into the world--and once born man outlook upon nature to a study of the Christian view of the world. Christianity as naturally as science does into our outlook to-day. evolution in nature, so that new forms of life developed while old The gods did things in nature directly, much as man man, and he naturally approached the world with these problems in mind. human life coming to be the sole meaning of religion_? spirituality is possible, natural to man, and, above all things, id = 39015 author = Sellon, Edward title = Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World date = keywords = America; CHAPTER; Egg; Egypt; Father; God; Great; Greece; India; Manabozho; Mexico; Mr.; Ophiolatreia; Phallic; Quetzalcoatl; Serpent; Stephens; Sun; Worship; egyptian summary = Supposed Phallic Origin of Serpent Worship--The idea of life-"The serpent is the symbol which most generally enters into the mythology _Supposed Phallic origin of Serpent-worship--The Idea of Symbol of the Phallus--Phallic Worship at Benares--The Serpent and Symbol of the Phallus--Phallic Worship at Benares--The Serpent and Serapis, but on later monuments this god is represented by a great serpent with any detail of the Mexican Gods, referring to the serpent symbols _Mexican Temple of Montezuma--The Serpent Emblem in Mexico--Pyramid of _Mexican Temple of Montezuma--The Serpent Emblem in Mexico--Pyramid of serpents in their hands, and small figures of priests are represented with symbolic serpent and the egg or circle represented on a most gigantic As we have said the serpent entered largely into the symbolical worship of On some of the Egyptian temples the serpent has been conspicuously figured In addition to the temple of the great serpent-god Cneph at Elephantina, id = 16470 author = Sinclair, Upton title = The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition date = keywords = Abbott; America; Bible; Billy; Bishop; Book; Bootstrap; Catholic; Christ; Christian; Christianity; Church; Dr.; England; Father; God; Good; Haven; Holy; Jesus; John; Lord; Mr.; New; Outlook; Pope; President; Rev.; Society; St.; Sunday; York; british; english; man; religion summary = Los Angeles "Times" I read a perfectly serious news item, telling how church-member; he calls in the best physician he knows, he makes sure means old men in the seats of authority, not merely in the church, but I know the Church of Good Society in America, having studied it from Suffer little children to come unto the Catholic priest, and And so, at all times and in all places, the Catholic Church is modern country in which the Catholic Church has worked its will. fathers were explicit, and the Catholic Church for a thousand years began life as a working-man, he tells us, in the good old American fact that his divinely guided church had burned men for teaching the new faith, so that the Church and he might work together for the God. In many churches today we can see the beginning of that new id = 15696 author = Southwell, Charles title = Superstition Unveiled date = keywords = Bishop; Christianity; Christians; Church; God; Nature; Newton; Universalists; cause; deity; man; scripture summary = for opposing the existence of God,'' in which he is told ''a world of declare the aim of Universalists is ''to dethrone God and destroy man,'' to be considered God''s right-hand men, and of course duly qualified Universalists believe the God of Bishop Watson a supernatural chimera, have existed from all eternity; if a great God sufficiently mighty to believing that there is a God, an intelligent cause of things, infinite Universe, or God, or Substance, or Spirit, or Matter, or the letter X, Could God be known, could his existence be made ''palpable to feeling as The universe is an uncaused existence, or it was caused by something The notion of necessarily existing matter seems fatal to belief in God; idea of matter''s self-existence or eternity, that they took to imagining as incontestible truth, that God exists necessarily--that the same The cause of Nature must have been one God, id = 16512 author = Southwell, Charles title = An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles date = keywords = Apology; Christianity; Christians; Church; England; God; Ireland; Lord; Nature; Newton; Shepherd; atheist; author; cause; deity; man; religion; scripture summary = religions faith and political practice is, in truth, far closer than is for opposing the existence of God;'' in which he is told ''a world of to be considered God''s right-hand men, and of course duly qualified Atheists believe the God of Bishop Watson a supernatural chimera, and to nature''s God, and the like, but very difficult to have any idea whatever No such God can be believed to exist by reasoners who rigidly abide by existed from all eternity; if a great God sufficiently mighty to make a believing that there is a God, an intelligent cause of things, infinite Saint John was right; ''No man hath seen God at any time,'' to which ''open reasonings on the existence of God, well remarked that ''Theists are ''Reason forms the idea of God or of Supreme Intelligence out of Nature, The cause of Nature must have been one God; id = 37302 author = Stephens, William title = An Account of the Growth of Deism in England date = keywords = Christ; Church; Clergy; England; King; man summary = intrinsick Goodness of the Law of _Christ_, was sufficient to gain mens create a God for the People''s Worship; ''tis plain, that their Religion rival the Sovereign Power; the _Bishop_''s House like that of the _King_, ordinary Discourses of the _Clergy_, in which the Church of _England_ is Church now is King _William''s de facto Title_; And no Conformity to King had better Titles to his Crown, as the Consent of the People in who own the King''s Right upon the Consent of the People, be still you will be a Son of the Church of _England_ you must hold Kings and Act of Uniformity reduced to be King of the Church-party; and at last, would pay a respect to the Clergy of the Church of _England_, which was Religion of all Christians by their Devotion to the See of _Rome_, i.e. indeed to themselves; and he doubted whether any Church were id = 17194 author = Temple, Frederick title = The Relations Between Religion and Science Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 date = keywords = Bible; Evolution; God; Law; Lord; Moral; Revelation; Science; Testament; nature; religion summary = God in Science; and the religious man often asserts that he cannot find impossible, from the very nature of the evidence on which Science rests. universality which is the sure characteristic of the Moral Law. It will be matter of consideration in a future Lecture how our knowledge divine nature in proportion as he recognises the Supreme Law and makes man stands the power of God. When the real claim of the will for freedom has been clearly seized by And if the progress of Science and the examination of human nature nature and its moral and spiritual needs, or concerning Almighty God and Moral Law. In analysing the origin and nature of Religion in the second great spiritual and moral lessons, and it takes the facts of nature as Divine Moral Law to claim supremacy over the physical world. believer who asserts the universality of a law except when God works a id = 42747 author = Terry, Milton Spenser title = The Shinto Cult: A Christian Study of the Ancient Religion of Japan date = keywords = Asiatic; Buddhism; God; Japan; Mikado; Shinto; Society; deity; japanese; transaction summary = facts make the study of this people''s ancient religious cult, which is designates the old, ancestral worship as a way of the gods distinct Shinto thought and in the Japanese civilization and government. Japanese mind and imagination Japan, as a place of residence, was far Elements of Animism.= The ancestor-worship of Shinto can not be The Communal Cult.= The next phase of the Shinto worship to be of the great temples that the Shinto worship is seen in its most the sovran gods." How early these rituals of worship were committed deities, and there were many gods who received worship in a number for the worship of the Shinto gods, the ministers of State assemble, Shinto and Buddhist worship of Japan. the Shinto cult, that the Japanese are exceedingly religious. The Shinto cult is essentially a religion of race and national temples, so that the Japanese would always speak of Shinto shrines as id = 41935 author = Thorne, Guy title = The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer date = keywords = Athene; Calypso; Circe; Homer; Ithaca; Penelope; Telemachus; Ulysses; Zeus; great; like; man summary = green islands set like emeralds in wine-coloured seas, the immortal Ulysses spent a year in the arms of Circe, and she gave birth to a son "Comrades," said Ulysses, "we are brought here by no chance of wind Three times during the long night did Ulysses draw his sword to So the giant took the bowl from the king, and as Ulysses went near Then from the stern of the boat Ulysses cried out in a great voice of "The great Athene has sent me to you, king," said the god, "for she Ulysses drew his great sword, and held it over her with menacing eyes. "Men call thee Ulysses!" said the goddess, and at that word something lee of the island Ulysses could hear no voices but those of the wind HOW ULYSSES LOST HIS MERRY MEN AND CAME A WAIF TO CALYPSO WITH THE "Now will we go to the palace," said Ulysses. id = 46212 author = Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay) title = The Covenant of Salt As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought date = keywords = Arabs; Bible; Blood; Covenant; Dr.; East; God; Ibid; Jesus; Jews; Lord; life; oriental; reference; salt summary = salt represents blood, or life, and the covenant of salt is simply reference to the primal idea of covenanting as a means of life-sharing; to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word But the covenant of salt among primitive peoples has, and ever has had, as man, are dependent for their life on salt in their blood. covenanting; on the other hand, blood is used for salt among some and as salt has been shown to represent blood in the primitive mind, the measure of life, or salt, the reminder of God''s covenant with his neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be the sacred table in the Holy Place, and refers to the salt as a symbol fact that salt stands for blood, or for life. Baron du Tott, referring to the sharing of bread and salt, says: "The id = 26035 author = Tulloch, John title = Religion and Theology: A Sermon for the Times Preached in the Parish Church of Crathie, fifth September and in the College Church, St Andrews date = keywords = Christ; God; religion summary = Christ--his Master and ours--thought of religion as something simple. religion is a simple knowledge like that which the loved has of the worked after Him. This is the special sphere of Christianity, or at was in God towards man as a living power of love, who had sent Him spiritual life in man, however obscured by sin, and the reality of a life; and His mission was to restore the divine powers of humanity but they are questions of theology and not of religion. spiritual power above me, of whom Christ is the revelation, are facts religion and of theology, and how far better than all theological that these elements of the Christian religion are verifiable in every addresses all hearts in which spiritual thoughtfulness and life have But again, religion differs from theology in the comparative But again, religion differs from theology in the comparative id = 30154 author = Vaknin, Samuel title = Essays on God and Freud date = keywords = Rangelovska summary = id = 46531 author = Valmiki title = The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) date = keywords = Arjuna; Bhusunda; Brahma; CHAPTER; Chúdálá; Deity; Divine; God; Gods; Hara; Hari; Indra; Intellect; Kumbha; Lord; Meru; Rudra; Ráma; Sage; Sikhidhwaja; Siva; Vasishtha; Vishnu; body; desire; form; great; ignorance; know; knowledge; life; light; like; live; man; mind; nature; sanskrit; soul; spirit; state; thing; time; world summary = The body of the living liberated man, has a mind employed in its soul or jíva, mind and its desires, and the world and all things; say Intellect as universal soul and mind of living beings. body, the animal soul has its life and action; as all things appear to The living soul dwelling like the bee in the lotus-bed of the body, time like all created things in the world; so do human bodies also fade who thinks in his mind the world to be one thing, and the Divine spirit Divine Soul like the human mind has conceptions of endless things, the course of the world (in the mind of God); but every thing is as spirit, under the forms of the living soul and the perishable body. great soul, and his mind resting in the state of unity, remains with The mind being with its desires, which form its soul and life, it id = 34170 author = Various title = Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern date = keywords = Apollo; Athens; Bacchus; Cupid; Demy; Diana; God; Goddess; Gods; Greece; Greeks; Heaven; Hercules; Hip; Jason; Jove; Juno; Jupiter; King; Mars; Minerva; Neptune; OVID; Olympus; Pan; Perseus; Pluto; Psyche; Saturn; Theseus; Thou; Troy; Venus; illustration; like; love summary = heaven is seated Jupiter, master and father of men and gods. placed a stone instead of the newly-born, in the arms of the god, habited poet represents the King of Gods seated on a golden throne, at the feet of Loved by Jupiter, she had by the God a daughter called Proserpine, whom Pluto, God of Hell, seized near the beautiful vale of Enna, in Sicily, and the art of song, was the son of Jupiter, by the beautiful Latona, daughter Yet deign, white queen of beauty, thy fair eyes This Deity, "the boy-god," as poets love to call him, was the offspring of The stream, fearing the power of the God, returned her to earth upon a bank his place, and making Psyche immortal, gave her in marriage to the God of This god, so adored and loved in the country, had the power of spreading id = 41450 author = Various title = The Project Gutenberg Collection of Works by Freethinkers With Linked On-line and Off-line Indexes to 157 Volumes by 90 Authors; Plus Indexes to 15 other Author''s Multi-Volume Sets. date = keywords = file summary = This is a multi volume index file The index has links to all volumes. this index and all the volumes of THE PG FREETHINKERS, on your hard Doing so will allow this index to be used with all the many links 3. Go to your Download Directory and double-click on the downloaded file several directories: you may rename the directory named files to any 4. In the newly named directory containing all the eBooks in this set you will find a file named INDEX; this may be moved toany directory on This index file or its shorcut allows you to open all of When using the index or any of the files you may use the BACK button to 5. This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and The directories are named: id = 17802 author = Vignoli, Tito title = Myth and Science An Essay date = keywords = Aryan; Christianity; God; Greek; Olympus; Sanscrit; animal; fact; form; human; idea; image; man; myth; object; people; phenomenon; primitive; science; semitic; thing summary = causes of this fact, whence myth, in its necessary and universal form, Such phenomena of nature are regarded by animals as living subjects, and phenomena of nature, either vaguely, or in an animal form, is a the object of myth became two-fold just as the animal nature became natural myth of animals is transformed by man into a fetish, whether The second form of myth next occurs, if considered as it exists in man, of vegetable and animal forms, which were the first subjects of myths, appearances, and extrinsic forms, as far as animal and human intuition, subject, and the causative power which animates that form, and this this was the primitive origin of myth, both in man and animals. is the universal and primitive sense of myth in nature, which man alone things and words for shape, man like animals thought in images; he id = 34513 author = Wheeler, J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) title = A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations date = keywords = Academy; April; August; Berlin; Bible; Charles; Christianity; Church; College; December; Dr.; England; English; February; France; Freethinker; Freethought; George; God; Italy; January; Jean; Jesus; John; July; June; Life; London; Louis; Man; March; Mr.; National; New; November; October; Paris; Philosophy; Professor; Religion; Revolution; Rome; Science; September; Society; Thomas; University; Voltaire; William; York; american; french; german; history; italian summary = work he published many historical, philosophical and scientific essays, philosophical work entitled Love is God. Died at Paris, 11 Dec. 1874. L.), French author of a work on the Christian Superstition, published his works, which included Essays Written to A. He wrote many works on natural history. he published Buchanan''s Journal of Man, and has written several works a member of the French Academy, wrote a treatise on the Authority wrote Principles of Physical Chemistry, a work in French on The New Debierre (Charles), French writer, author of Man Before History, 1888. He died at Paris, April, 1886, and his son published he wrote on philosophy and Christianity, and in ''41 his work called the following year he published his work on The Science of Man. His Metchnikov (Léon), Russian writer in French; author of a work on He published a work on The Philosophy of himself by publishing works on Freethought, religions, philosophy id = 505 author = White, Andrew Dickson title = History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom date = keywords = Adam; Ages; Almighty; America; Archbishop; Augustine; Bacon; Bible; Bishop; Catholic; Christianity; Church; Copernicus; Darwin; Dead; Deluge; Dr.; Egypt; England; English; Europe; Father; France; Galileo; Genesis; Germany; Geschichte; God; Histoire; Holy; Italy; Jews; John; Life; London; Lot; Luther; Middle; Moses; Mr.; New; Noah; Old; Oxford; Paris; Paul; Pope; Prof.; Protestant; Rev.; Review; Rome; Satan; Sayce; Science; Sea; Sir; Smith; Society; St.; Testament; Thomas; University; Xavier; York; christian; egyptian; great; hebrew; history; jewish; roman; scripture summary = In the wake of these great men the universal Church steadily followed. his great theological work, the Sentences, which became a text-book of Bochart published his great work upon the animals of Holy Scripture. At the same time came Huxley''s Man''s Place in Nature, giving new and Great, the most noted man of science in that time. Great theological men of science, like Vincent light of the universal Church in the thirteenth century, whose works the Melanchthon, more exact, fixed the creation of man at 3963 B.C. But the great Christian scholars continued the old endeavour to make the gained new strength from various great men in the Church, among whom may the old doctrine, the new scientific view of the heavens was developed Early in the eighteenth century appeared a new edition of the great work In the second century that great father of the Church, bishop and id = 40812 author = Wilson, Thomas title = The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times date = keywords = America; Ann; Annual; Bureau; County; Cyprus; Dr.; Egypt; Ethnology; Europe; Grammar; Ilios; Indians; Italy; Lotus; Mr.; Museum; National; New; Paris; Report; Schliemann; Swastika; art; fig; greek; illustration; spindle summary = that form of Swastika which bends two or more times (fig. Swastika sign, with the ends bent to the left (fig. Fig. 46 represents a spindle-whorl with two irregular Swastikas; Fig. 69 represents one Swastika in which the main arms cross at Fig. 77 represents a spindle-whorl with a Swastika of the ogee style curved to Fig. 83 contains an unmistakable Swastika, the main arms of which cross at thus forming a figure similar to the Swastika (fig. _Swastikas with four arms crossing at right angles, ends bent to the _Swastikas with four arms crossing at right angles, ends bent to the _Swastikas with four arms crossing at other than right angles, the ends Swastika with four arms crossing at right angles, the ends all turned to be a Swastika with dotted cross lines, with the arms turned spirally to represent any form of the cross, whether Swastika or not. id = 35087 author = Wright, Dudley title = The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites date = keywords = Athenians; Athens; Demeter; Eleusinian; Eumolpus; Greater; Greece; Lesser; Mysteries; Persephone; Pluto; eleusis; initiate; initiation summary = The Eleusinian Mysteries--those rites of ancient Greece, and later of THE CITY TEMPLE, LONDON, E.C. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites called Eleusinian, and in which they celebrated the Mysteries in honour person not initiated into the Mysteries who chanced to be present at return of Persephone to earth--which, of course, took place at Eleusis; says that it is certain that the initiated of the Lesser Mysteries initiated, and had the Lesser Mysteries repeated for that purpose. various and complicated rites of initiation to the Eleusinian Mysteries, of secrecy demanded of initiates into the Eleusinian Mysteries, and on Initiation into the Lesser Mysteries only permitted the neophyte to go the neophyte could be initiated into the Greater Mysteries, into the "The Athenians," says Hippolytus, "in the initiation of Eleusis, show to purification the candidate for initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries "To die is to be initiated into the great mysteries,... id = 13620 author = nan title = The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy date = keywords = Ahura; Avesta; Babylon; Bible; Book; Brahman; Christ; Church; Daniel; Father; God; Holy; Israel; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; Judas; King; Lord; Mazda; Osiris; Rome; Sabbath; Son; Thee; Thou; Thy; Zarathustra; christian; good; great; jewish; man; nature; scripture; thing summary = days few and evil; but, behold, the time shall come when my son Jesus his head, and said: Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day. and said: Blessed be thou, O our God, which hast this day brought to God. The king said unto him: Why dost thou not worship Bel? with a loud voice, saying: Great art thou, O Lord God of Daniel, and gods in the great day of judgment when human thoughts, words, and acts reveal to thee the perfect knowledge of God and man. the Book of Poetry, "The good man receives Heaven''s benediction." Why, then, O my God, do men call Thy existence, wisdom, and power more of God. Every man naturally desires to know, but what does knowledge signify himself; but wishes, above all good things, to find felicity in God. Whoever has a spark of true charity feels at once that all earthly id = 15202 author = nan title = Young Folks'' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Myths and Legendary Heroes date = keywords = Arthur; Baldur; Blind; Charlemagne; Cid; Emperor; Frithiof; Ganelon; Gessler; God; Guy; Havelok; Hercules; Jason; King; Loki; Man; Odysseus; Perseus; Pluto; Prince; Princess; Proserpina; Queen; Rajah; Robin; Roland; Siegfried; Sir; Theseus; Thor summary = "Come, wife," said Philemon, "let us go and meet these poor people and "My home is better than your mother''s," said King Pluto. "We shall see," said King Pluto; "you do not know what good times we "My dear little Proserpina," said the King, sitting down and drawing came the Princess said to her mother, "The son of a great Rajah has "Good," said the King; "but if this Rajah''s son wishes to marry my The poor man gladly agreed, and the King went away promising to send Then Theseus called to the servants and said, "Go tell King Ægeus, When the man saw Sir Galahad, he said, "Come near, thou servant of "Then if thou wilt not that the people know," said the King, "tell thy "Ho!" said the King, "thou art a strong old man, O stranger! "I beseech thee, noble knight," said the King, "tell me why thou hast id = 16295 author = nan title = The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 date = keywords = Bauddha; Brahman; Bâdarâya; Footnote; Lord; Mâyâ; Mîmâ; Nescience; Râmânuja; Self; Sûtra; Upanishads; VIII; Vai; Veda; Vedic; Vedânta; cause; high; knowledge; non; passage; person; scripture; soul; true; world summary = scriptural passages refer which speak of Brahman or the Self as being in individual soul but Brahman.--According to Râmânuja the three Sûtras Upanishad passage about the ether refers to Brahman or to the individual individual soul to the highest Self, a passage which attracted our denoted by the word Sat; to the Self he (the individual soul) goes, i.e. into it it is resolved, according to the acknowledged sense of api-i, topic?--But, it may again be objected, Brahman is called the tail, i.e. a member of the Self consisting of bliss; analogously to those passages have different meanings yet in certain passages denote Brahman, since the passage as declaring that Brahman, which, as the cause of the world, the passage refers to the individual soul and the highest Self, then it of the Sûtra in a different way) Scripture declares the other, i.e. Brahman, to be the Self of the embodied soul. id = 2388 author = nan title = The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna date = keywords = Prince; Sanskrit; work summary = Abstaining from a work by right prescribed Such an one acts from "passion;" nought of gain Saying, "Tis right to do!" that is "true " act Quit of debates and doubts, his is "true" act: Of body, mind, or speech, evil or good, Knowledge, the thing known, and the mind which knows, Good is the steadfastness whereby a man For life''s sake, and the love of goods to gain, And Sudras, O thou Slayer of thy Foes! His natural duty, Prince! For every work hath blame, as every flame Against thy will, when the task comes to thee There lives a Master in the hearts of men With all thy soul Trust Him, and take Him for thy succour, Prince! And--as thou wilt--then act! Give Me thy heart! Thy soul from all its sins! Hath come unto me, by Thy favour, Lord! [FN#28] I omit two lines of the Sanskrit here, evidently interpolated by id = 3283 author = nan title = The Upanishads date = keywords = Atman; Brahman; God; Nachiketas; Self; Supreme; Upanishad; death summary = perishable body and regards it as his true Self must experience death many a teacher, the knowledge of the Self cannot be gained unless the heart of the Knowledge of the Atman or Self cannot be attained when it is taught by those distinction between body and Soul, he knows that his true Self is not the Yama having first described what the Atman is, now tells us how to attain It. A man must try to subdue his lower nature and gain control over the body and Know the Atman (Self) as the lord of the chariot, and the body as the Self is joined with body, mind and senses, It is called the intelligent knowing that great all-pervading Atman the wise man grieves no mind is able to think: know that alone to be the Brahman, not form and sense faculties, know him not; because the real Self of man is not id = 45414 author = nan title = A Handbook of Freethought Containing in Condensed and Systematized Form a Vast Amount of Evidence Against the Superstitious Doctrines of Christianity date = keywords = Adam; Bible; Christ; Christianity; Cor; David; Devil; Eve; Gen.; God; Israel; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jews; Job; John; Lord; Luke; Magdalene; Mark; Mary; Mat; Moses; Paul; Sabbath; Satan; Son; Sunday; Testament; christian; deut; man summary = time was), God formed it into the universe in six days of creation. spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods which thou hast And if any man say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one of us. And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one of us. whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, ... And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; gods that man had become as one of them, knowing good and evil. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death; id = 50534 author = nan title = The Three Impostors date = keywords = Christ; Deity; Divinity; Frederick; God; Impostors; Jesus; Mahomet; Moses; man; religion; work summary = had said that "Three Seducers"--Moses, Jesus Christ, and Mahomet, had said that he considered Moses, Jesus Christ and Mahomet as "Three impiety--that Moses, Jesus Christ, and Mahomet had ruled the world been most followed, Jesus Christ, Moses, or Mahomet. creed; but a man who could regard Moses and Jesus Christ as impostors, those of Moses, the great Lawgiver of God. Is there not a book, ''The the true God--the Jewish, the Christian, and the Mahometan?--a book the law of Moses, of Christ and of Mahomet, because they are as like the book having been written by a learned man in high repute at the into the nature of God. Belief in final causes refuted as contrary Scripture to prove that man is chief of God''s works below, and formed Terror having thus created the Gods, men wished to ascertain their last to follow the God of Jesus Christ. id = 50715 author = nan title = De Tribus Impostoribus, A. D. 1230: The Three Impostors Translated (with notes and comments) from a French manuscript of the work written in the year 1716, with a dissertation on the original treatise and a bibliography of the various editions date = keywords = Chap; Christ; Christians; Egypt; Emperor; Frederick; God; Gods; Impostoribus; Jesus; Mahomet; Moses; Secs; man; religion summary = which are these words (translated): "Moses saw God in the burning man, so that when it is said that God has made everything in order, Fear which created Gods, made also Religion, and when men imbibed people of this God, provided they believed what he said on his part. establishing divine worship, or of a supreme God of whom he said he having been found, it was believed that his God had taken him, and such a man would be a great enemy of God, the delight of the Devil, the is to say, man, for whom it is said God has created the universe. people believe that the voice of God declared himself for Mahomet, great number should especially be accepted as God. For every religion religion and the worship of God according to the promptings of natural I. Book about the nature of the Gods. id = 7297 author = nan title = The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 date = keywords = Bha; Brahman; Bri; FOOTNOTE; Lord; Nescience; Pradhâna; Prakriti; Prâna; Pûrvapakshin; Release; Self; Smriti; Supreme; Svet; Sûtra; Udgîtha; VIII; Vaisvânara; Veda; Vedânta; high; person; scripture; true summary = as to the essential nature of things, declare that Brahman only, i.e. non-differenced pure intelligence is real, while everything else is different object (from the non-knowledge of Brahman''s true nature) and follows that the entire aggregate of things, intelligent and nonintelligent, has its Self in Brahman in so far as it constitutes passage means--the womb of the world is the great Brahman, i.e. nonintelligent matter in its subtle state, commonly called Prakriti; with Other texts, again, aim at teaching that the highest Self to whom nonintelligent and intelligent beings stand in the relation of body, and means of right knowledge; and in this way the purport of the Vedântatexts includes Brahman--as having a definite place in meditation which Under II, 1, 7 and other Sûtras the non-difference of the effect, i.e. the world from the cause, i.e. Brahman was assumed, and it was on this