The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-03
Ell Nathan, the Misanthrope.


In your issue of yesterday. my dis.
tinguished opponent El Nathan-Marcus
has so far survived his defense of
King David as to come forth in a dia-
tribe directed at the whole world.
All his opponents in this discussion
all the different sects, all the preach
ers that preach for the money, Gle
never did, at least not long,. all the
preachers that are tinctured with hu.
manity enough to leave out the place
of eternal damnation-all this multi
tude are on the broad road to He'll.
and according to Nathan's own admis-
sion, he and John Calvin are about the
only people that are going TO the Orth-
odox heaven. What blessed meeting
it viii be between the murderer John
Calvin and the distinguished apologist
for David. my honorable opponent
Nathan. Calvin will embrace Nathan
and say: Nathan, you perverted his
tory little when you accused the
Catholics of causing the death of Ser
yetus; for there we're no Catholics in
authority in Geneva at that time, and
it was | myself that drew up the
charges against Servetus - he my
guest too, but he believed that Christ
was the Eternal Son of God. and /
had a 'hunch" that he was the Son
of the eternal God; and so had him
burned, and while it is true that / did
at the last minute suggest that he be
beheaded, was not averse to having
him tortured to death at a slow fire:
but nevertheless, am proud that you
put up this defense. Step over here
next to the throne It is almost be-
yond the grasp Of ordinary intelligence
in this age, that any person that has
brains in his eocoa-nut huh, not
fungous growth, could offer defense
for the murderer Calvin aud try to.
draw moral lesson from the fact that
Calvin never preached sermon in
favor of card playing or baseball.
Calvin, the inhuman fiend. the cow
ardly cur, who while Servetus was
his guest wrote out charges against
him and presented them to a tribunal
which he Calvin controlled. Think
of it. and yet we have an apologist
in the person of little spewing speei-
men of the preacher tribe, who came
into the world backwards and is now
engaged in sending everybody to He'll
No chance, shrieks this infinite fiend.
The Church of today is going to Hell,
you are all going to HE'LL
Nathan pours a little of his yitriol
on the atholics-forgetting of course,
that they have preserved this Bible
for him that he is such a militant de-
fender of, and forgetting also that the
Church is the person of the
First Pope and founder Of the Chris
tian system, the distinguished MUIR
derer Constantine kept the Faith so
that Nathan and his little tribe of the |
saved could find out the true way.
Nathan forgets that the Catholics
gave him Sunday and Baptism by inn
He also forgets that if it |
was not for Catholicism, we could have
no Saints or pieces of the true cross. |
or sample of the darkness that was
over Egypt the darkness that could |
be felt.
In reading Nathan's attack ON every
hing and everybody, | could readily |
see that Darwin's theory of Evolution
was correct, for how else could we
account for such character unless he
zane fro mthe lower animals Nathan
mistakes epithets for argument, and |
links doubtless, that he has answered |
,ur many queries as to credibility au-
and morality Of the Bible
1y calling names.
Nathan has been asked to reconcile
he Mosaic character, and accounts of |
Creation with Science. and he has been
,alled upon to state why the Bible was
written in Greek, when the Apostles
znew only Hebrew; he has been call
ID upon to state why God did not
make a perfect pair instead of cou-
lie of savages, and to further state if
persecution did not start with
he murder of Abel by Cain. He has
allied to offer any excuse for the char
lcters of Solomon, Joshua, Esther,
Noses, Paul and others. He has failed
0 explain the reasons for each of the
our evangelists reading the inscrip-
ion over the cross differently in fact
lie has failed in every particular save
\ the defense of the Man after Gods
,wn heart The sweet s'ager of 81
srael. David. I said to myself, when
read this defense ~ IF David had
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