Blue-grass blade., 1899-12-10
LEXINGTON KY. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 10. E. M. 2ss

would go to the bottom would they
call IL "glad tidings OF great joy2"
According to the Bible nearly all
will 70 to an eternal hell that Is far
worse than drowning.
Christians say that all the books
believed to be the word OF God by
the heather nations are human in
ventions and false. Our book, called
the Bible can, in the same way, be
shown to be a human invention.
They say to us: "What will you
give us that is better than the BIZ
ble2"
We would give them a higher
morality without useless Christi
anity. 1t cannot truthfully be said
that the man who attacks Buddhism
attacks all morality. He does not
attack goodness, Justice, mercy, or
anything that tends in his judgment
to the welfare of mankind, but he
merely attacks Buddhism.
So one, in attacking Christianity
does not attack kindness, charity,
or any virtue, but he attacks some
thing that has been added to these.
He does not attack the fruit or the
flower, but the parasite.
Truth is better than falsenood.
We would give you the religion Of
reason and humanity instead Of
that of the Bible that tells you that
most OF the people will 60 to hell.
The. fear of that awful punishment
has caused many good people to go
to insane asylums.
We would lessen the danger OF re-
ligious wars and stop the expense
of keeping up $4,000 preachers and
40, 900 priests in the United States
alone. We would give you just and
impartial laws and repeal the relig-
ious, and partial laws, which are
many, and which furnish big pay
for preachers, for penitentiaries,
soldiers and law makers.
We do not want the Bible forced
upon the minds OF our young in the
public schools One OF these partial
religious laws in some of our states,
is that.no Liberal can hold any pub
lie Office, nor will his oath be taken,
no matter how honest aud upright
he is, while, in these same states,
bad Christians can fill these Offices.
9ais GArist stsars sa sa ~ lsftsst Here ~ 2 ase-
no bad Christians; that all bad peo-
pie belong to the Infidel rank.
Christians claim credit for all the
good done by Liberals while they
charge all of their crimes to Liber-
ais. They generally say that the
morality taught by them is higher
than that taught by others, and yet
when they read our books and
attend our Liberal Sunday Schools,
they learn that there can be no bet
ter morals than those taught by Lib
erals.
Liberals have never advocated
partial laws such as have been pass
ed by Christians, But good Chris
tians are no more guilty of passing
partial laws than good Liberals,
though these unjust laws, as a gener-
al thing, have been passed through
ignorance; and this is why call your
attention to the fact that there are
superstitious and bad, as well as
good, Christians.
The Bible says that "There is
none good; neither indeed can be-; "
and we often hear the best OF Chris
tians pray, in public, for the for
giveness OF their sins. Are not
these confessions evidence that the
Christians are little bad?
The percentage of morality varies
IN Christians. Some may have 80
per cent, others 90, 80, 20, 40, 20, 10
1, 0. All who believe In the ipspi-
ration OF the Bible and the resurrec-
tion of Jesus are Christians. Thus
H. H. Holmes, Rev. G.. e. Morrison
and Charles Guiteau were Christians.
If these scouudrels had pro-
fessed Liberalism we would be
fair enough to own them as bad
Liberals, but they all professed
Christ and we will be fair enough to
call them Christians.
To further prove that morality and
religion are not synonymous, and
that there are bad Christians as we'll
as good, l willquote the report OF the
Chaplain OF the Ohio Penitentiary.
Males registered at his Office for
the year 1879 we're COL.
Parental church relations were as
follows: Catholics 1873; Methodists
172; Presbyterians 90; Baptists 66;
Congregationalists IL: Episcopa-
lians 33; Lutheraus 20; Christians
or Campbellitcs II; United Breth-
reu IL; other denominations 26;
those protesting no religious belief
Al.
From these figures one can easily
ascertain whether Liberals or Chris
tians furnish the greater number OF
convicts.
A few years ago, j. b. Wise, q
one-armed school teacher, of Clay
Center, Kansas, was convicted by
the United States Court for sending
through the mail, Isaiah, 36-12, and
Chas. @. Moore, an ex-Christain
preacher, OF Lexington, KY, who
learned that the Bible was no more
inspired than any other book, aud
then published a Freethought, Pro
hibition paper. was in 1899, convict