Cruelty

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...we are convinced that nothing offers a greater menace to truth and the progress of humanity than the Church. How else could it be? Is it not the task of the Church to chloroform the women and children. Does she not kill all sound reason end science with her dogmas, and degrade the self-respect of man by confusing his ideas of right and justice? Does she not preach eternal slavery to the masses in the interest of the ruling and oppressing class? And is she not determined to perpetuate the present reign of darkness, ignorance, misery, and crime? For the progress of our age not to be an empty dream, it must first sweep the Church out of its path.

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We all know that superstition brought disaster and caused rivers of blood and tears to flow. All these revolting aberrations of poor mankind were historical, inevitable stages in the normal growth and evolution of social organizations.

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...the idea of fraternity -- not human but religious -- as preached by the Catholic Church, was at that time, as it always has been, nothing but a shocking irony...

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Just let us scratch a little and very soon we'll find, in our contemporary Spanish society, the Inquisition, immanent and diffuse.

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God! God! His voice resounded from pole to pole, and behold, men fell to quarreling, hating, and cutting one anothers' throats. And they have been doing the same thing ever since that abominable name was pronounced and they will go on doing it till the process of the ages is accomplished.

[Part 3: Modern Atheism, Chapter 8: The Enlightenment, Page 106.]­

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Religion is guilty of many misdeeds, not least of human sacrifice, and so ought to be abolished entirely.

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...fanaticism of religion...[is] a principle the most blind, headstrong, and ungovernable, by which human nature can possibly be actuated. Popular rage is dreadful, from whatever motive derived: But must be attended with the most pernicious consequences, when it arises from a principle, which disclaims all control by human law, reason, or authority.

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The Rev. Dr. McClelland thinks the remedy is to stick by the catechism; that there is not now enough of authority; not enough of the brute force; thinks that the family, the church, and the state ought to use the rod; that the rod is the salvation of the world; that the rod is a divine institution; that fathers ought to have it for their children; that mothers ought to use it. This is a part of the religion of universal love.

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All orthodox creeds are alike infamous. All of them have good things, and all of them have bad things. You will find in every creed the blossom of mercy and the oak of justice, but under the one and around the other are coiled the serpents of infinite cruelty.

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Do you know that I have seen some people who acted as though they thought that when the Savior said "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven," he had a raw-hide under his mantle, and made that remark simply to get the children within striking distance?

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Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless “beasts,” has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.

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Religions began with the origin of the human race; and therefore at a time when the rapid progress of population was everywhere desirable; their principles have not yet changed, now when the unlimited increase of families has given birth only to beings, of necessity condemned to physical suffering or moral degradation.

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Men, who are not born to be murderers, since God has not armed them like lions and tigers; who are not born to be imposed upon, since they all necessarily love truth; who are not born to be marauding brigands, since God has given equally to them all the fruits of the earth and the wool of the sheep; but, who have, nevertheless, become marauders, perjurers, and murderers, are really angels transformed into demons.

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April 13, 2020 : Cruelty -- Added.

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