The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-04-06

You will see that we are not the
''nal<ed savages'' that the Christian
Missionaries make out the people of
the East to be, but that we have the
same humanitarian love for all races
of mankind. And furthermore, we
believe in the Brotherhood of Man.
L trust that when you come, that YOU
must bring your dear wife with YOU
L also guarantee that neither you or
Mrs. Lee Sharp will be eaten
But that we shall give both of you a
right royal welcome to this clark and
HeatheniSh. Savage, Wild, IdOl-WOr-
shipping, Benighted country / am
using the common slang phrases of
the everyday Christian preacher of
the Gospel of the poor Carpenter of
Nazareth, who is supposed to have
nowhere to lay His weary head, but
His present disciples and preachers
live in palaces and live like princes,
and in most cases they are the most
cOnceited and arrogant people in the
world. There are many good men
amongst them, but the majority are
not so. 1t is pleasure to see men
and women like yourself that will do
little thinking and not leave it to
others to think for us, when we have
brains Of our own. Nature has given
us all a certain amount of brains and
common sense, and if we don't use it,
then l am sure that nature will mete
out to us full punishment for our
neglectfulness. You say that you are
in the midst of the Preacher, and you
hear the sound of his sonorous voice
giving forth the praises of his God.
L am sure that | quite sympathize
with you, as we here in Burma, have
not the pleasure of the ''revivalist''
for some years, as they found that we
poor, benighted heather was not so
easily gulled by these Christian Sky
Pilots. So they find that we are not
SO easily gulled by them, as we be-
lieve in the Gospel of Free Thought
and Humanity. We look upon all the
sO-called Anthropomorphian Gods Of
any nation as a myth. Buddha, to us,
is only man and not a God, neither
do we maintain that he possessed any
divine attributes, but we claim that
he is the ideal man as far as his
moral teaching is concerned. He was
the first great free-thinker that his
tory records anything about. And we
say that the world will have many
hundreds of such Buddhas in the
world. We might call the late Col.
r. G. Ingersoll Buddha, or Thomas
Paine, or the great Scientists of
America and Europe. Yes, and every
man and woman in the world that is
trying to uplift the human race from
vice and sin and crime For what
does the meaning of the word Buddha
but Embellishments" And what is
the work Of every Freethinker, or
what name you may call them by.
They may be called Rationalists,
Freethinkers, Atheists, Liberals,
Buddhists, Agnostics, etc., etc.
[ have no objection in the least to
you inserting any part of my letter in
the New York '"Truth-Seeker." I al
ways scan it's pages weekly, and it
gives me pleasure to see at least one
such outspoken journal in the United
States of America. [ trust that you
will forgive me for taking up so much
of your time in reading this long let
ter, but as much of the news is new
to you, l am sure that you will ex-
cuse it.
l shall remember your kind invita-
ton, and if ever I contemplate visit
ing the y. S.-A., I shall make it my
business to come and visit you.
received the two small photos of you
and your dear wife. l am very
pleased with them, and I shall treas
ure them amongst my many friends
who like VOurSo1f T have NOT tho