Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-06-28
BLUE GRASS BLADE
Life and Death

the dark ages, she will rise again, as in the
Renaissance, for the eternal years of fate
are hers but falsehood wounded writhes
in pain to die amid her worshippers The
historical fate of these great religious
systems, the most of them fourished for
many thousands of years, point out to us
the unfailing signs that Christianity is on
its death bed. Like its predecessors it is
now ripe and ready for the harvest.
In order to better understand the impend-
ing crisis, one should have, at least, a
brief statement of the rise and life of
Christianity, to know how it was forced on
the world, and there held so long in the
face of truth, justice and humanity. It's
life has been so crowded with momentuous
events, that the reader, TO get a fair knowl-
edge of them must go to some large library
for facts, as only synopsis can here be
given Let me here presume the reader
to be more or less conversant with the
history of Christianity, which, as the off
spring of the proletarian element of Greece
and Judaism, was born on the bleak and
barren shores Of the Dead Sea, some 200
years before our era its stock consisted
of poverty. piety, ignorance and devotion;
it struggled in its poverty under the names
of Therapeuts and Essences until about the
year 120 c. f., when 1t threw off its old
titles etc: baptized the infant in the name
the first time appealed to the world as
society bearing the name of Christians,
meaning good, pure and holy men. In this
garb 1t appealed to its own, the unlettered
pious element of the Roman empire; its
appeal was not in vain for the great mass
of the Roman people were ignorant and
superstitious.
Like all other religions in their infancy.
the new born sect gathered its harvest of
tho unto ;teo1 +hrauy he an1O To.
the popular breeze entered on the journey
of life where it inherited and appropriated
to its own use the wornCut clothes of dead
paganism. Thus fables, myths. legends
and fairy tales became its life study. It's
numbers vastly increased, when Constan-
tine, then on the throne, saw in this babe
of the forest. force to keen him on the
throne; It was men for his army, not in
telieence that this crafty monarch wanted
he bid for it, received IT, and recruited his
army out of the sinews of the child OF
destiny: for this favor he first nut the
new sect on an even footing with his pagan
subjects later he extended his bounty,
finally putting Christianity on state basis,
where 1t was no longer to be he suppliant
for favors, but the master of its own doe
trines. Once on It's feet the child Of fate
uattering after imperial donar, set out in
dependent thought and act not in harmony
with the. tenets of Christianity and the wish
and will of its pope.
At this juncture Christianity. true to its
after life, bent all her energies for sue
cess regardless of every rule of justice and
humanity; bribery, fraud, forgery, force.
torture. death, and every other criminal
means for most nefarious end were her
weapons No eminence, station in life sex,
blood ties stood in the pathway of the pope.
and his priesthood in their criminal
strife for power. Violent conversions, burn
ing at the stake cutting out tongues burn