By Joseph Wheless
Incendiary in its ardour and irrefutable in its proof, this vintage of atheistic literature condemns Christianity as superstition and wishful considering rooted in early paganism, "sourced" by way of nameless fables, and promoted via self-serving males looking "worldly riches and power." Raging opposed to the blatant manipulations of the early Church and the antiscience schedule of the trendy Church, American author JOSEPH WHELESS (1868-1950) takes on every thing from faked "relics" and the "holy mummery" of stigmatics and different dramatic mystics to the "priestly terrorism" of the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Church's old intolerance. this is often an absolute must-read for a person trying to find ammunition to counter the argument that the sturdiness of Christianity is facts of its legitimacy. additionally on hand FROM COSIMO: Wheless's Is It God's be aware?
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G. Let us see how this indisputable rule works to the destruction and proof of fraudulence of the “divine revelations” of Christian credulity. ) Revealed or invented, it is virtually identical with Christianity; but 36 Joseph Wheless – Forgery in Christianity as the mythic Mithraic god could not “r eveal” anything, the human reason which devised Mithraism was quite equal to the Christian God so far as devising mythology and ethics is an attribute of godhead. The reader is asked to cheek mentally each of the uninspired details of Pagan invention with the “divinely revealed” identities of the Christian Faith.
Some ... believed that they could appropriate [the truth contained in Judaism and Christianity] without being obliged on that account to renounce the beauty of other worships. Such a man was the Emperor Alexander Severus (222235); another so minded was Aurelian (270275), whose opinions were confirmed by Christians like Paul of Samosata. Peter and pay homage to the Sun by obeisance and prayers. “ When such conditions prevailed it is easy to understand that many of the emperors yielded to the delusion that they could unite all their subjects in the adoration of the one Sungod who combined in himself the FatherGod of the Christians and the muchworshipped Mithras; thus the empire could be founded anew on the unity of religion.
Funny! g. Let us see how this indisputable rule works to the destruction and proof of fraudulence of the “divine revelations” of Christian credulity. ) Revealed or invented, it is virtually identical with Christianity; but 36 Joseph Wheless – Forgery in Christianity as the mythic Mithraic god could not “r eveal” anything, the human reason which devised Mithraism was quite equal to the Christian God so far as devising mythology and ethics is an attribute of godhead. The reader is asked to cheek mentally each of the uninspired details of Pagan invention with the “divinely revealed” identities of the Christian Faith.