The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-22

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believers has stood aghast at the hid
eous mountain of foul mouthed lies.
But like its acceptance of evolution,
which sweeps away the foundation
and every vestige of the christian re-
ligion, its acceptance of the fact that
the unbeliever can die as resignedly
and peacefully as the believer, has at
last been forced upon it.
The clergy still repeat the silly lies
about Voltaire and Paine having died
recanting and in terror: but the
peaceful deaths of inidels still more
pronounced than were Paine and Vol
taire, who were but deists, occurring
every day in our own time, shame
the clerical liars into silence in regard
to them.
The Bazoo admires the fortitude of
the infdel who can calmly face the
last great enemy" but it depercates
the example, as it sows the seeds of
infidelity! Here is the old argument.
If a man can die in unbelief no in
ducement can be offered TO make him
"believe" or rather profess to believe,
for no man believes in fact in the
foolery of the christian scheme of sal
walton. And the theory that regards
death as an "enemy" to be conquer
ed !-what an ideal-what philoso
ply! when death is as natural as
birth. By continually harping upon
death as an enemy and an event to be
dreaded and prepared for Gas they
prescribe) the priests in all times have
imposed unhappiness end wretched
lives upon the human race. 1t is
time the shameful imposition was
stopped. 1t is time the false and
foul mouths of these abominable I'M
posters were stopped. Let the masses
be taught a little common sense.
Let them hear the truth and be
taught the true philosophy of life and
death. Let them be taught that
death is natural and by no means to
be dreaded. No preparation for
death is needed, but good life, and
nothing will secure happiness but a
good life and a clear conscience.
If one lives a good life nature will in
sure him a peaceful death bed. 1t is
not in the nature of all of us to be
wholly good, but we can all make
amends-we can in our netter moods
make the good preponderate over the
bad, so that the balance will be in
our favor and our fellows will look
charltably upon us, as appears to
have been the case with Free London.
And was ''god In the constitution"
voiced by the men whose memories
we revere-the revolutionary patriots
who framed it? Ifso why didn't
they put god in it? And what has
god done for the nations that have
confessed him? What but plunge
them into bloody wars about him :?
Have not our bloodiest wars i'm all
time been religious wars? Has not
religious persecution been the crying
curse since history began to record
events? Have men been skinned
alive, chained in dungeons till they
rotted, had their bones broken upon
wheels, been thrown to wild beasts,
been burned to death at stakes by the
million In any cause but that of relig-
ion? We defy the most stupid edi-
torial ass or the most ignorant and
bigoted priest in the land to deny
that the christian religion has been
the all browning and all pervading
curse of the universal world since it
first got firm footing amongst the
frauds and the fools.
The editorial, it will be seen, at
tempts to belittle the name of Deity
by using lower case "g," and takes
to task the BAzoo because it depre.
Gates the example of Free London as
sowing the seeds of infdelity, and en-
deavors in a singularly superficial
manner to convince its readers that
the Christian scheme of salvation is
"foelery." The arguments used by
the Age to substantiate its assertions
are of the sort which belong to the
Tom Paine and Voltaire school, but
which lack the purity of language
with which the thoughts of these, GER
tainly learned men, appealed to the
intellect. There is the old abuse of
the causes which brought about relig-
ious wars, but there is nothing to tes-
tify to the grand march of religion
which made such wars impossible ;
there is the assertion that "no prepa-
ration for death is needed but good
I;fo apd nnth;nu will sncure hanniness