Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. This file made available by Bill Restemeyer and the Internet Infidels for The Freethought Web. Letter to Peter Carr (Jefferson’s Nephew) Thomas Jefferson, 1787 Dear Peter, — I have received your two letters of December the 30th and April the 18th, and am very happy to find by them, […]
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Section XXII Matthew 19:1 AND it came to pass, that, when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan: 2. And great multitudes followed him, 3. The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying […]
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Section IX Luke 13:1 THERE were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2. And Jesus, answering, said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered […]
Thomas Paine: Related Links Friends of Thomas Paine (Off Site) On Thomas Paine (1870) [ 55K ] by Robert Ingersoll Paine’s Letter to Washington Proved His Humanitarianism [ 14K ] (Off Site) by Joseph Lewis The Resurrection of Thomas Paine (1953) [ 16K ] (Off Site) by Joseph Lewis Thomas Paine (1892) [ 44K ] by Robert Ingersoll Thomas Paine and the Age […]
The Atheism Of Astronomy: A Refutation Of The Theory That The Universe Is Governed By Intelligence by Woolsey Teller Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift. Lucretius THE […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter XI From “The Prince Of The Power Of The Air” To Meteorology by Andrew Dickson White I. Growth of a Theological Theory. The beliefs of classical antiquity regarding storms, thunder, and lightning Development of a sacred science of meteorology by the fathers of the Church Theories of Cosmas […]
The Warfare of Science With Theology Chapter VIII The “Fall Of Man” And Anthropology by Andrew Dickson White The “Fall Of Man” And Anthropology The two antagonistic views regarding the life of man on the earth The theory of “the Fall” among ancient peoples Inheritance of this view by the Christian Church Appearance among the […]
The CHAIRMAN: Mr. Roberts will now occupy six minutes out of the twelve remaining, and then Mr. Bradlaugh will reply till ten o’clock. Mr. ROBERTS: Ladies and gentlemen; if Mr. Bradlaugh would strictly confine himself to accuracy in his representations of what I say, my arguments would not suffer in his hands. I have not […]
THURSDAY, 15th JUNE, 1876, IN THE TEMPERANCE HALL, BIRMINGHAM. MR. GEORGE H. ST. CLAIR IN THE CHAIR. THE CHAIRMAN: Ladies and Gentlemen, we are met together to hear a very important question discussed by two gentlemen very competent to discuss it. The question is, "Are the Scriptures the authentic and reliable records of Divine revelation?" […]
Mr. BRADLAUGH: The remark has been made that if we take this book as a human production we cannot understand it. How useful that is. We have no other books of a similar character to which similar objections apply? Have we Lord Amberley’s new book, in which he has two sub-divisions, one of which he […]
What Did Jesus Teach? Charles Bradlaugh THE language in which Jesus taught has not been preserved to us. Who recorded his actual words, or if any real record ever existed, is all matter of guess. Who translated the words of Jesus into the Greek no one knows. In the compass of four pamphlets, attributed to […]
Descent of Man [ 1871 ] Charles Darwin [ 1809 – 1882 ] Chapter XIV – Birds- Continued WHEN the sexes differ in beauty or in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male who surpasses the female. These qualities, as we […]
The Origin Of Species (1872) Charles Darwin Chapter XV: Recapitulation and Conclusion AS THIS whole volume is one long argument, it may be convenient to the reader to have the leading facts and inferences briefly recapitulated. That many and serious objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with modification through variation and […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter XIII: Chiloe and Chonos Islands Chiloe — General Aspect — Boat Excursion — Native Indians — Castro — Tame Fox — Ascend San Pedro — Chonos Archipelago — Peninsula of Tres Montes — Granitic Range — Boat-wrecked Sailors — Low’s Harbour — Wild Potato […]
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) Charles Darwin Chapter IX: Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and The Falkland Islands Santa Cruz — Expedition up the River — Indians — Immense Streams of Basaltic Lava — Fragments not transported by the River — Excavations of the Valley — Condor, Habits of — Cordillera — Erratic Boulders […]
Secularists Catechism Charles Watts 17 page printout From an old, undated, book published by Watts & Co. entitled: 'Pamphlets by Charles Watts' Vol. I. The book contains the motto: -- "To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly." -- Volney. **** **** THE SECULARIST'S CATECHISM: BEING AN EXPOSITION OF SECULAR […]
The Life Of Jesus by Ernest Renan COMPLETE EDITION LONDON: WATTS & Co., 5 & 6 JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET STREET, E-C-4 **** **** To THE PURE SOUL of MY SISTER HENRIETTE, Who died at Byblus, on September 24th, 1861. Dost thou recall, from the bosom of God where thou reposest long days at Ghazir, […]
[Back To Chapter 10] A Biographical Appreciation of Robert Green Ingersoll by Herman E. Kittredge CHAPTER 11 DID HE ATTACK ‘THE THEOLOGY OF FIFTY YEARS AGO’? OR DID HE ATTACK THE CHRISTIANITY OF THE TIME? A Criticism very frequently heard from those who seem to have in view the double object of belittling Ingersoll’s […]
AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING by John Locke 1690 TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD THOMAS, EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY, BARRON HERBERT OF CARDIFF, LORD ROSS, OF KENDAL, PAR, FITZHUGH, MARMION, ST. QUINTIN, AND SHURLAND; LORD PRESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY’S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL; AND LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS, AND OF SOUTH […]
Chapter XVIII Other Simple Modes 1. Other simple modes of simple ideas of sensation. Though I have, in the foregoing chapters, shown how, from simple ideas taken in by sensation, the mind comes to extend itself even to infinity; which, however it may of all others seem most remote from any sensible perception, yet at […]
Chapter V Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses Ideas received both by seeing and touching. The ideas we get by more than one sense are, of space or extension, figure, rest, and motion. For these make perceivable impressions, both on the eyes and touch; and we can receive and convey into our minds the ideas […]
BOOK IV Of Knowledge and Probability Chapter I Of Knowledge in General 1. Our knowledge conversant about our ideas only. Since the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about […]
Chapter V Of Truth in General 1. What truth is. What is truth? was an inquiry many ages since; and it being that which all mankind either do, or pretend to search after, it cannot but be worth our while carefully to examine wherein it consists, and so acquaint ourselves with the nature of it, […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Vatican’s Last Crime How The Black International Joined The World-Plot Against Freedom, Liberalism, And Democracy by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 1 Contents Chapter I – The Foulest War In History Chapter II – Just What The Papacy Needed Chapter III […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. How The Faith Is Protected The Unique Apparatus Of The Black International To Secure Loyalty by Joseph McCabe Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius The Black International No. 17 Contents Chapter I – Death And Damnation For The Unbeliever Chapter II – Blinkers For The Believer Chapter III – […]
SECTION I THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH CHAPTER VII THE MODERN PHASE IN the opinion of "Catholic Truth," the reform of the Church, which it grossly exaggerates, was due to its own vital powers of recovery, not to the pressure of heretics. As I have repeatedly pointed out, the most irritating feature of Catholic […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter VII by Joseph McCabe The Forgery of the Old Testament Contents How We Detect the Forgery The Priestly Forgers The Mistakes of Moses The Mythical History of the Jews The Truth About the Prophets Pious Fiction How We Detect The Forgery […]
Order books by and about Joseph McCabe now. The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXIII by Joseph McCabe The Horrors of the Inquisition Contents The Massacre of the Albigenses The Origin of the Inquisition The Infamy of Its Procedure The Roman Inquisition The Spanish Inquisition The Massacre of the Albigenses BY modern history we mean […]
Chapter 4 Joseph Wheless 36 page printout, pages 112 to 147 of 322 CHAPTER IV THE SAINTLY "FATHERS" OF THE FAITH "The greater Saint, the greater Liar." Diegesis. "The principal historians of the patristic period cannot always be completely trusted." (CE. vi, 14.) EMBRACED WITIFIN CE.'s confession of patristic untrustworthines and perversion of truth is […]
Chapter 11 Joseph Wheless 21 page printout, page 195 - 215 CHAPTER XI THE HOLY PRIESTS AND PROPHETS OF YAHVEH TURNING from the self-portrait of the Hebrew chief God, let us view the holy priests and prophets of Yahveh, the votaries of this Hebrew war-god. This examination will show the vague and shadowy notions of […]
