The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-17


duk to be their champion against
Tiamat, the disturbing, chaotic ocean
flood. Marduk armed himself with the
lightning flash and thunderbolt and
called the winds TO his assistance.
Mardnk vanquished Tiamat and divid-
ed his corpse into two parts; from
the one part he created the heavens
and from the other the earth and sea.
Marduk peopled the heavens with
stars, the dwellings Of the great gods.
Then followed the creation OF plants
and animals and finally the creation
OF the first two human beings out Of
clay. This account is OF course not
true, for our God created out Of moth
ing. Il might be germane to this sub
jeet to inquire who created our God.
In the famous Paley Watch argument,
Paley is made TO say that a watch Is
a wonderful piece Of mechanism. but
that the man that made the watch is
more wonderful than the watch; there
fore he must have had a being to
create him more wonderful than the
creature; but here the comparison
stops, and the supposition is; that the
Deity that created man being so much
more wonderful than man, had no crea
tor. This is Whites System of Logis
We know a few things and the fact is
that the number Of the known is so
small, that It seems useless for US to
try to find out the unknown; but we
insist that We know as much about the
matter as any preacher since the days
of John, the Baptist We know that
we are sent to this planet under a
sentence of death-a sentence from
which there is no appeal-no moving
for a new trial, and we know that our
bodies will return again to the ele-
ments that compose them and that the
universe has not been added to or TAX
EN- from by our brief visit to this
tenement of clay" There is just the
same amount of matter in the world
as there was the morning of creation,
for matter is indestructible. existing
in many different forms but no atom is
ever lost, or none gained
Chemists tell us that our universe
is composed of some 73 simple ele-
ments and that our bodies have per-
haps IA of these simple elements
substances that can not be subdivided.
The Captain will be panied to know
that the church burned Bruno at the
stake for teaching the daily revolu-
ton of the earth on its axis, and that
she tortured Copernicus for telling of
his belief as to the Solar system, and
suppressed Galileo for using his crude
telescope in investigating the planets
and stars. The fact that the church oc-
cupies today tthe same ground taught
by these men need not deter the true
believer, for the church has had to do
this stunt quite frequently. In com
Imencing these discussions, it was our
Intention to try and convince the Chief
tain readers, not Captain White, that
Ithe book we call the Holy Bible is not
1.-THE foundation of Justice, Morality, or
ICiyilization, but that civilization has
Ievolved and has been of gradual
growth. Many scientists, writer's, and
thinkers have contributed to this ad-
vance As to the Civilization of the
Bible, the dark ages are a perfect type
of a government by the Bible. of the
Track business was attempted here in
the Plymouth Colony by a band of re-
Iligious refugees called Puritans, and
theirs record is SO damning that | feel
sure that no defenders will arise to
protect their fair fame. His task would
he too great. 1t would be impossible
to condone their treatment of the
Quakers, or Baptists, and the insane
ldelusion of Witchcraft was theil
browning infamy They read in theil
Bibles that Saul had called for q
Familiar Spirit, and he had been di
reoted to the witch of Endor," who
lcaused Samuel the Prophet to mater
ialize, so they We're sure of their prem
Uses. Compare the civilization of the
Jews at the time of Christ with the
lCivilization of Greece or Egypt. anC
Judaism pales into insignifcance. The
Greeks had 500 years before Christ {
system of equitable laws relating tt
property and citizenship and the laws
given to Solon have been improved o.
livery little even in our day.
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