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    Is the Morality of Jesus Sound? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society
    Is the Morality of Jesus Sound? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society
    Is the Morality of Jesus Sound? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society
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    Is the Morality of Jesus Sound? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society

    By M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Is the Morality of Jesus Sound? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society

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      Is the Morality of Jesus Sound? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society - M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

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      Title: Is the Morality of Jesus Sound?

             A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society

      Author: M. M. Mangasarian

      Release Date: December 18, 2012 [EBook #41650]

      Language: English

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      We have done with the kisses that sting,

      The thief's mouth red from the feast,

      The blood on the hands of the king,

      And the lie at the lips of the priest.

      —Swinburne

      Is the Morality of Jesus Sound?

      A Lecture Delivered Before

      the Independent Religious

      Society, Orchestra Hall,

      Chicago, Sunday, at 11 A. M.

      By

      M. M. MANGASARIAN

      I make war against this theological instinct: I have found traces of it everywhere. Whoever has theological blood in his veins is, from the very beginning, ambiguous and disloyal with respect to everything.... I have digged out the theologist instinct everywhere; it is the most diffused, the most peculiarly SUBTERRANEAN form of falsity that exists on earth. What a theologian feels as true, MUST needs be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth.

      —Nietzsche.

      Is the Moral Teaching of Jesus Sound?

      A great deal depends upon the answer to the question, Is the moral teaching of Jesus sound? This question brings us to the inner and most closely guarded citadel of Christianity. If it can be captured, the rout of supernaturalism will be complete; but as long as it stands, Christianity can afford to lose every one of its outer fortifications, and still be the victor. Reason may drive supernaturalism out of the Catholic position into the Protestant, and out of that, into the Unitarian, and out of that again into Liberalism, but reason does not become master of the field until it has stormed and razed to the ground this last and greatest of all the strongholds—the morality of Christianity.

      If Jesus was the author of perfect or even the highest ideals the world has ever cherished, he will, and must, remain the saviour, par excellence, of the world. Whether he was man or God, which question Unitarianism discusses, is a trifling matter. If his ethical teaching is practically without a flaw, I would gladly call him God, and more, if such a thing were possible. His walking on the water, or his raising the dead, or his flying through the air, would not in the least embarrass me. I could accept them all—if he rose morally head and shoulders above every other mortal or immortal, our world has ever produced. It is claimed that he did. What is the evidence?

      To facilitate this discussion, and to concentrate all our attention on the subject of this discourse, we will waive the question of the historicity of Jesus. For the sake of argument, we will accept the gospels as history—accept the authenticity of the documents, the trustworthiness of the witnesses, and the inspiration of the texts which we are to quote. We will grant every

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