The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01
The Immaculate Conception or
the Virgin FEnFy.
of an the "doonotisns' ever nut

christian era.
For congregation of mere fallible men,
or to speak plainly and truly as did the
founder Of our rsligon-for a conclave of
'phdrisees and hypOcrites' to assume the
settlement of such question in opposition
to all the teachings of holy writ, and i'm
piously to declare that there will be 10Y
IN keaUcn" in consequence ofits determin-
alton, is assuming blasphemously to regu-
late the affairs of omnpotence.
In the language of the Romish Priests
there should be no liberation for such here
sis to truth and true religion as this, and
| it is surprising that the act has not been
more deeply aud generally denounced both
as impious and absurd
To be conceived in sin and born in
iniquity" is the bitter lot of all mortality
whatever be its blessings or dignities above
all perishable nature. and that Plus for |
rather im-pius) the 9th, tottering weak
Oldham, maintained on mostunstable tenn |
poral throne by foreign bsyOnets-sbould
on such question be pronounced as hay
ing supreme and iyallible Judgement D.
| is 10 ignore the existence OF that power
by whose mercy we 'live, and move. and
have our beng" and 10 elevate in its stead
the weakest aud worst attributes ofwretch-
ed helpless human nature.
There is a beauty in religion and devo-
ton, when sincere, which we ell should,
aud do respect, even while uncertain of
their truth or their stability, if not for this
alone, yet for the sake Of the good morals,
order, and good government, which must
look to rational religion for their surest
foundations.
But such religious dogmas as that just
promulgated as an additional and necessa-
ry article of christian faith is calculated to
bring religion and its professors into con-
tempt or something worse with all reflect
ing classes of civilized society.
In the days of Constantine the Great
(scoundrel and murderer as he was) such
a dogma might have had some little respect
or support from an imperial decree, and
however false and irreligious, might have
derived some seeming evidence and tolera-
T ton from the supreme power of the State,
or in the age of Peter the Hermit and the
Crusades, when tho Princes of Europe
were almost dependent for their thrones on
the head of their church, such a dogma
might perhaps better have been sus-
tanned than amid the enlightenment of this
19lh century, when tho foundations of all
religion and religious faith arc perpetually
and deeply pro5ed for the determination OF
their real, orsupposed, or historical truth.
q And that no circumstance might be
f wanted to culminate this absurd impiety.
=. "The most Holy Father" before raising his
a Apostolic voice to pronounce this dogma
tic decree must first pretend toinvoke the
l.. Almighty by chanting the 'Venl Creator =
as if that grand, and mysterious, and ter
. ribe' Omnipotence--a conception even oI
y whose attributes is in itself almost impious
y I were ut the beck and bidding of weak NOR.
v tai man..
i Thus hypocrilicaly pretending to oassumc
;. which had of course been prepared ant
considered and "cM and dried" in tie Va
:, tican even before the conclaye met---in The
o same manner as the proceedings Of Loco
= Foco conventions in past times.
= Reference has been made to the DAYS o
4 Constantine and the crusaders yet ever
# then this new yamped dogma of the chris
q tan faith could not get sufficient credi
If and support in these semi -barbarian time
to be sustained as it has been in this en-
=. lightoned age. w.
+ And what a time to test the patience ant
- credulity Of the world by the elevation @
=, this wrHtched Golden Calf" which tn
(, Ibis and Apis worsl.ippers ofEgypt nigh
VI reasonably have rejected. Whatever tn
ID truth, and merits, and benefits, of the chris
10 tian religion, it has occasioned more war
- and prosecutions and bloodshed than an
other known to history. Look at the myr
q. lads nov being slaughtered in China 70
IN its establishment, and even now mo:
i terrible and bloody warts waging in Europ
=. ostonsibly, whatever be the true cause, o
!, recount Of the squabbles real or pretende
III III Of bigotied priest hood in European Tu
ls ls kew or ,,bout the so called "Holy Places,
a 4 n Syria ana Palestine.
W. Every widow and every orphan dali
m cs and hourly created in the Crimea by sicI
10 iC ness or the sword arc attributed or attri'
II utable to the yotaries ofthat rehgg zion whlc
now again thrusts false and impCsslo
,e dogma upon the crown of that pyramid
Ii. fallacies and falsehoods from which Il
ds world has been so long struggling to
IL free.
So And from what source has been derive
he the expense of bringing together the'
clerical dignitaries from the remotest r.
gions of the earth, and to crown Wi
of "gold and precious stones, the image
n an idol. From tho blood, and sweat, ar
: destituton, and misery, of toiling million
g who must find new source of exaction-
expense and oppression in this wretchC
At dogma which is impiously claimed to eau
to 'Joy in Aequen and great rejoicing upc
th earth"
to Blu. cnough--if the people of the wor
Ily can believe in. and patiently submit to su,
G. "dogmatic DEGREES" from Rome they d
lat serve to be what many peoples have boz
ns, before; the miserable dupes and slav
al ofa proAigate Heresiarchy impudent
art claiming the awful attributes of omnip
ms tence for its most weak and worthless me
it tai creatures.
"a January 80, 1855. LUTHER
III *Como thou, oGod. Ibis, Crane-Apis, a B'
Dy HoNoRADLE.-A gentleman who "
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