The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant
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page 295 of 369 (79%)
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to the pleasure of heaven for the Lazaruses all to look at the Diveses,
and be unable to reach them, even to give them a single drop of water. Thus whether we see that the nobler part of the Christian morality is pre-Christian, and is neither Christian, nor Jewish, nor Hindu, nor Buddhist, but is simply human, and belongs to the race and not to one creed. Whether we note the omissions in its code, making it insufficient for human guidance; whether we mark its errors, mistakes, and injurious teachings; whichever point of view we take from which to consider it, we find in it nothing to distinguish it above other moral codes, or to prevent it from being classed among other moralities, as being a mixture of good and bad, and, therefore, not to be taken as an, unerring guide, being like them, all FALLIBLE. * * * * * INDEX TO SECTION III. OF PART II. * * * * * INDEX OF BOOKS USED. Bhagavat Gita, in Anthology...406 Bradlaugh, The Bible: what it is...397 " What Did Jesus Teach?...414 Buddha, in Anthology...403, 405 " Wheel of the Law...408 Cahen, Lévitique...398 Colenso, Pentateuch and Book of Joshua...396 |
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