The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-10

II. IL one of the liberals is in the pen
itentiar-y. ne is tine only one out OF ten
million Liberals in the United states
that can be found in the pen. accord
ing to statistics. / was surgeon or the
Deer Lodge penitentiary for three
years and the inmates, consisting OF
$50. were ushered into their cells pear
ing the X of Christ and praying morn
ing and evening for sinners sim Tn 20 I e not
reason, IL is only reply to the minis
ter's insinuations.
The minister's sermon above referred
to Is, according TO history, a recapieu-
latiun of the sermons that have peen
proclaimed from the pulpit for eighteen
hundred years. My dear minister, can
you not see the excuses TO whicn
fanaticism will lead your followersT
You, as Judge, become inhuman as
| soon as there Is a question OF the IN
| terests of religion. Men of the gen
/ tlest disposition, equitable upon every
| ether matter-as yourself. for instance
become ferocious when your religion
| is assaiied. The most feeling and COM
passionate persons believe themselves
| in conscience Obliged to harden their.
| hearts. to do violence to their better
| instincts, and to stifie nature, IN oruer
to show themselves cruel to those VINO
/ are denounced as enemies to their su-
| persttion.f
Recall 20 your mind, sir. Mr.. Minis
| ter. the cruelties of nations in alternate
/ prosecutions of Catholics and Protes-
i tants, as either happened TO be IN the
4 ascendant You ought to have read the
/ history of the Jansenists. The super
stitious element. of course. Us not so IN,
tolerant and cruel as IL was a hundred
years ago. in consequence of the truths
| propounded by Bruno, Servetus, Hum
boldt. DeHalbach, Kant, Spinoza, OAR
| win, Haeckel, Mesler. Draper, Sunder-
| land, Bucket, Buchner, Mills, Tyndai'
voltaire. Paine, Spencer, Denton, IN
| gersoH and many more / will mention,
IL necessary, who have detached the
| religious fangs that for hundreds or
years were fastened IN the quivering
flesh of any individual who dares TO
think for himself. These scientinc
men above mentioned, these liberals,
| are closing in on the rank and lille OF
| superstition's stronghold to that ex-
tent that the intellectual mind can
| portray it's thoughts in defiance or the
sack. the faggot or the thumb screw.
Hence this article for publication.
Historical facts in support of your
view in regard to the beneficial enects
| of Christianity has had upon the peo-
| pie of the world, / will now give you
| with its direful consequences before
education loosened religious grip from
the throats of those who advocated
freedom of the mind. Religion perse-
cutes and kills; free thought teaches
| men to do right for the sake of right.
| Religion rewards criminals by onering
them blissful paradise upon repent
ance, and in all countries where reli-
gion controls and is paramount 10 the
civil law, death pays the penalty or
asserted rights. For a confederation or
the statements herein expressed we
ask YOU, Mr. Baptist Minister, to con-
suit history review the past by COM
mencing with Constantine's religious
| treatment of his own relatives and
| other heretics. If you WILL without
prejudice, review church history, YOU
, will note as you travel over the Chris
tan road the fairest and most beauti-
full countries the sun shines upon made
| desolate homeless, motherless and
| fatherless by the Christian sword
| sanctioned by the Christian Gods pre-
, | tended inspired book. All wars are
! | prosecuted in the name of Christianity
LIN the name of the same God. as In
Armenia to-day. On the battlefield
opposing generals are offering up pray
ers to the one God to assist them In
destroying those arrayed agalns
others, as in our late civil war. How
ridiculous and monstrous Ii seems to
{. fair minded person to read the inVo
' cations offered up by the Christian sol
: diers on each side.
q 4 a.
: sume that a Just God would assist on
portion of His own creation to slaugh
O. | ter the other portion. When Soldle
. of the North is buried a salute is fires
\ | over his grave in exultation of the vic
: tory he helped to win; over the South
a ritual is read and prayer offered
> sanctioning Gods approval. Horribl
!, as this doctrine Is. 1t is being laugh
= from every pulpit in the land. In con
= sequence of this ignorant Christian su
n | perstbtion, the earth has been deluge
" with human blood. Ignorance, whic'
: sustains these Christian wars, in tn
!, ninth century in the province of Ar
q menia, put to death one million Paul
= ician heretics, sixty Thousand Abb
! gense and in the 18th century tire
J. thousand persons were burned aliV'
Seventeen thousand were imprisone
!. for life in Andalusia, nine hundred an
- fifty burned alive in Villa Real, an
= in the 10th century three million Jew
II were expelled because they could nd
accept Christ.
We win go back and review II
III bloody deeds of Tosquemada, who
history gives an account of the burnii
at alive of 1920 human beings. besid
H. fmprisoning and otherwise tortur1i
st 96. 400. A little later on Cardinal XIII
in enes an the name of his religion slaug
ne tered $4,000. Add to this 3l,9l2 burn'
b. alive, POI. 45o tortured with thum
all screws and sacks, devised by Christia
ar to enforce their superstition. And
no the Netherlands. as late as A. ID. IL
". 10000 were slaughtered. In the heels
p. this the pious Alva, by his own confe
he sion. murdered 10000 more for heres
no We will now visit Paris, look over q
a. Christian records for additional pro
nd of cruelty and murder IN the name
of the church, where we find 1900 Hugh
nots were slain In Paris alone, besid
thousands upon thousands througho
the empire.
While this was going on, what do
"" ascertain from rhe history of Englan
That Henry the Eighth slew 500 hers
II, les. Massey 277 Protestants; and Eliz
ch beth thousand of Catholics. Thus
he Christianity dealt with heretics and G
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