The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-06

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lows that they have ccasxsenees Il he'll
pat none IN heaven Now. / hosa that
even an 2rchargsi. Il be haxaTs 4 con-
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ACID q the wrong God i. Goa sAst 10
loved the world thar he damned rr..tv
nsassy everybody IN Il. isn.s The kind Of .
God hat I want
Cox IngerscA then criticised the attitude
OF the Bible toward women. and declare
that the heather TO whom, missionaries
were senk had "a mary cases 4 higher re-
specs and love for xorsen than the max
ers Of the Bible. He spoke scathingay Of
tas rAtaraing effect OF Christian theology
On sczence and arr, and IN characters
sacaily eloquent manner traced the worlds
progress from the Dark Ages. up through
the renaissance 10 modern days He at
tackled Cardinal Gibbons, statement that
christianity was true because OF the num-
Der OF its adkerents. and declared that ie
fae logic OF the cardinals statement IL
followed 20 fsnaisty 1t would saxrsxe
that Satan was IN the right In conse-
quencs OF the teeming population OF
hates
Speaking OF the historical basis Of Chris
taanity he said that the Emperor Constan-
the lifted Christianity into power the
same year that he murdered his wife and
foster son. and that the main doznaas Of
the faith we're formulated and accepted
at theological counsels that extended from
~ ID. SSi TO 1s7I
He arraigned theology for making the
world lose centuries Of precious time. He
said:
IL learning had not been lost during
the early ages OF the Christian era there
would have been no soil in the brain of
man IN which the seeds OF Christian reli-
gion could have taken root. Then came
the revival. the renaissance in Italy,
then IN France and next In England and
Germany. Our fathers did the best they
could. however. They believed in the su-
pernaturai. They thought that prayers.
fasting and weeping would insure them
sunshine, harvest and lots of joy in the
next world. They believed In two gods
one whom they didn't quite love, and the
other whom they didn't exactly hate.
They wanted to have fun with the
devil here. but they wanted to reside with
the good God in the next world. They
/ thought that their personal actions affect
ed nature II they were bad they were
visited By foods, thunderstorrns. eclipses
and storms In general Then, at last.
people began to do a little thinking Some
body discovered that ecs!pses came at
stated intervals. 1t then began to be sus-
pccfed that q man might speak disrespect-
fully Of q priest without the sun hiding
aais face. A little later and some OF ne
bolder even went % far as believing that
earthquakes were not the outcome OF Inn
morality.
And today. what7 Graduates OF Yale
and Harvard deem themselves at 10 adj
wise the Almighty. These generally wind
UP their prayers by giving the Deity the
political situation. They don't care to
talk much about robberies or murdeo.
but II a man ventures TO drink glass Of
beer on Sunday-weH, you know how IL
L.. Why, these good people even believe
that God can performs the impossible. /
recently, when at Washington. heard the
chaplain pray thus: 20. God. give this
congress wisdom! Impossibler'
Col. Ingersoll attacked some of the later
religious superstitions. especially those
that related to what he called 'bones
with miraculous medicinal powers. and
told some capital stories in point. He
said that he would furnish theology from
all the departments OF life. and ended
with forecast OF the time when the last
vestige Of superstition would be banished
from the world at large.