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    About The Holy Bible A Lecture
    About The Holy Bible A Lecture
    About The Holy Bible A Lecture
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    About The Holy Bible A Lecture

    By Robert Green Ingersoll

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    Release dateOct 1, 1992
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      In this relatively short piece, Ingersoll points out, pretty much book-by-book, how ridiculous the bible is. In some respects, it is an even better indictment than Thomas Paine's THE AGE OF REASON because Ingersoll goes a little deeper philosophically in his defense of science and of human intelligence. He points out that science has never learned anything from the bible, which was a book of its time(s) and reflects all the ignorance and prejudice of its authors. Ingersoll takes special delight in repeating some of the cruelest, most murderous passages in the bible to show what a fiend Jehovah was. He isn't much easier on Jesus, however, asking why Jesus never spoke out against slavery, for instance. I highly recommend that anyone who has doubts about the bible read this. And if you are looking for reinforcement that you are on the right path in abandoning religion, you will love it. There are too many quotable passages to discuss here. I'm sure I will reread this for pleasure more than once.

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    Title: About The Holy Bible

           A Lecture

    Author: Robert G. Ingersoll

    Release Date: October 10, 2011 [EBook #37703]

    Last Updated: January 25, 2013

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE ***

    Produced by David Widger

    ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE

    A Lecture

    By Robert G. Ingersoll

    In the nature of things there can be no evidence to establish the claim of Inspiration.

    1894.

    Contents

    ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.

    I. THE ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE.

    II. IS THE OLD TESTAMENT INSPIRED?

    III. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

    THE STORY OF ACHAN.

    THE STORY OF ELISHA.

    THE STORY OF DANIEL.

    THE STORY OF JOSEPH.

    IV. WHAT IS IT ALL WORTH?

    V. WAS JEHOVAH A GOD OF LOVE?

    VI. JEHOVAH'S ADMINISTRATION

    VII. THE NEW TESTAMENT

    VIII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHRIST

    IX. IS CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE?

    X. WHY SHOULD WE PLACE CHRIST AT THE TOP AND SUMMIT OF THE HUMAN RACE?

    XI. INSPIRATION.

    XII. THE REAL BIBLE

    ABOUT THE HOLY BIBLE.

    THERE are many millions of people who believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God—millions who think that this book is staff and guide, counselor and consoler; that it fills the present with peace and the future with hope—millions who believe that it is the fountain of law, justice and mercy, and that to its wise and benign teachings the world is indebted for its liberty, wealth and civilization—millions who 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 that conquers the darkness of death, and pours its radiance on another world—a world without a tear. They forget its ignorance and savagery, its hatred of liberty, its religious persecution; they remember heaven, but they forget the dungeon of eternal pain.

    I. THE ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE.

    A FEW wandering families—poor, wretched; without education, art or power; descendants of those who had been enslaved for four hundred years; ignorant as the inhabitants of Central Africa—had just escaped from their masters to the desert of Sinai.

    Their leader was Moses, a man who had been raised in the family of Pharaoh, and had been taught the law and mythology of Egypt. For the purpose of controlling his followers he pretended that he was instructed and assisted by Jehovah, the god of these wanderers.

    Everything that happened was attributed to the interference of this god. Moses declared that he met this god face to face; that on Sinai's top from the hands of this god he had received the tables of stone on which, by the finger of this god, the Ten Commandments had been written, and that, in addition to this, Jehovah had made known the sacrifices and ceremonies that were pleasing to him and the laws by which the people should be governed.

    In this way the Jewish religion and the Mosaic Code were established.

    It is now claimed that this religion and these laws were and are revealed and established for all mankind.

    At that time these wanderers had no commerce with other nations—they had no written language—they could neither read nor write. They had no means by which they could make this revelation known to other nations, and so it remained buried in the jargon of a few ignorant, impoverished and unknown tribes for more than two thousand years.

    Many centuries after Moses, the leader, was dead—many centuries after all his followers had passed away—the Pentateuch was written, the work of many writers, and to give it force and authority it was claimed that Moses was the author.

    We now know that the Pentateuch was not written by Moses.

    Towns are mentioned that were not in existence when Moses lived.

    Money, not coined until centuries after his death, is mentioned.

    So, many of the laws were not applicable to wanderers on the desert—laws about agriculture, about the sacrifice of oxen, sheep and doves, about the weaving of cloth, about ornaments of gold and silver, about the cultivation of land, about harvest, about the threshing of grain, about houses and temples, about cities of refuge, and about many other subjects of no possible application to a few starving wanderers over the sands and rocks.

    It is now not only admitted by intelligent and honest theologians that Moses was not the author of the Pentateuch, but they all admit

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