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id: 32578
author: Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)
title: Religious Perplexities
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  Such a religion as I have been trying to describe will be found in Christianity--yes, and in other religions also. Christianity, in the official, or authorized presentation of it, is a _smothered_ religion; smothered almost to the point of total asphyxiation and collapse, but not quite; smothered by the vested interests of great institutions, and by the ambitions, fears and self-seekings that such interests breed; smothered by the elaborate theological defences that Christians have built, not against Antichrist, but against each other; smothered by anxieties, not unnatural in these embroilments, for its own future.


id: 32756
title: Some Essentials of Religion
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  In the vision of the Holiness of God men have found their chief impulse to worship Him, and have felt the claim on their own lives exercised by the moral splendour of God's own character. XVI. 16) there are certain inevitable inferences establishing the belief that in Christ God became Man which are drawn from His life and teaching while on earth.


id: 16857
author: Tupper, Martin Farquhar
title: Probabilities : An aid to Faith
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  What would probably be the nature of such world and of such creatures, in a physical point of view? Moreover, for purposes at least of a concentrated worship of such creatures, that He should occasionally, or perhaps habitually, appear local.


id: 38380
author: Lisle, Lionel
title: The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of Its Own Rules
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  It has already been shown that the appearance on the way to Damascus had not been thought of when the second epistle was written, and during this appearance Paul _did not see_ Jesus. Jesus states of John, (1.)


id: 32006
author: Muir, Pearson M'Adam
title: Modern Substitutes for Christianity
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  'In Theism,' so Haeckel draws out the comparison, 'God is opposed to Nature as an extra-mundane being, as creating and sustaining the world, and acting upon it from without, while in Pantheism God, as an intra-mundane being, is everywhere identical with Nature itself, and is operative within the world as force or {73} energy.'[5] Guesses at the Riddle of Existence; Lectures on the Study of History; The founder of Christianity_.


id: 470
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
title: Heretics
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  And hence the worship of great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small. But the thing signal-box is not unpoetical; it is a place where men, in an agony of vigilance, light blood-red and sea-green fires to keep other men from death.


id: 130
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
title: Orthodoxy
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  It is much more likely that modern men will eat human flesh out of affectation than that primitive man ever ate it out of ignorance. How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference!


id: 18191
author: Lightfoot, J. B. (Joseph Barber)
title: Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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  But, when I observed that the author, not content with ignoring the facts and reasonings, went on to impugn the honesty of his opponents; when I noticed that again and again the arguments on one side of the question were carefully arrayed, while the arguments on the other side were altogether omitted; when I perceived that he denied the authenticity of every work, and questioned the applicability of every reference, which made against him; when in short I saw that, however sincere the writer's personal convictions might be, the critical portion of the work was stamped throughout with the character of an advocate's _ex parte_ statement, I felt that he had forfeited any claim to special forbearance. _ 51 sq (p. 271 sq), 80 sq (p. 307); Irenæus _Hær._ v. 81 sq; Tertullian _adv.


id: 14780
author: Paley, William
title: Evidences of Christianity
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  So, in the present instance, the rule here recited will never fail to make him who obeys it considerate not only of the rights, but of the feelings of other men, bodily and mental, in great matters and in small; of the ease, the accommodation, the self-complacency of all with whom he has any concern, especially of all who are in his power, or dependent upon his will. For, although we should lay aside the authority of our own books entirely, yet when Tacitus, who wrote not twenty, perhaps not ten, years after Josephus, in his account of a period in which Josephus was nearly thirty years of age, tells us, that a vast multitude of Christians were condemned at Rome; that they derived their denomination from Christ, who, in the reign of Tiberius, was put to death, as a criminal, by the procurator, Pontius Pilate; that the superstition had spread not only over Judea, the source of the evil but it had reached Rome also:--when Suetonius, an historian contemporary with Tacitus, relates that, in the time of Claudius, the Jews were making disturbances at Rome, Christus being their leader: and that, during the reign of Nero, the Christians were punished; under both which emperors Josephus lived: when Pliny, who wrote his celebrated epistle not more than thirty years after the publication of Josephus's history, found the Christians in such numbers in the province of Bithynia as to draw from him a complaint that the contagion had seized cities, towns, and villages, and had so seized them as to produce a general desertion of the public rites; and when, as has already been observed, there is no reason for imagining that the Christians were more numerous in Bithynia than in many other parts of the Roman empire; it cannot, I should suppose, after this, be believed, that the religion, and the transaction upon which it was founded, were too obscure to engage the attention of Josephus, or to obtain a place in his history.


id: 42460
author: Turton, W. H. (William Harry)
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  The Truth of Christianity Being an Examination of the More Important Arguments For and Against Believing in That Religion

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  And this is confirmed by the fact that even the higher animals do not appear to have any idea of _responsibility_, or any sense of _right_ and _wrong_, which in man are the result of his known freedom. Now the alleged motive, indeed the very foundation of Christianity, is that God _loves_ man; and as a natural consequence wishes man to love Him.


id: 19566
author: Patterson, Robert
title: Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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  God _created_ man in his own image. What an outrage of decency for such men to call themselves philosophers and Christians!


id: 20610
author: Tupper, Martin Farquhar
title: The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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  Poor old man! Good men, those who combine prayer with study, need not fear necessary difference of result, from holding different views; the grand error is too loosely generalizing; a little circle suits our finite ken; we cannot, as yet, mentally span the universe.


