The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-07

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tury have discredited him. As mat
ter of fact Captain. the protestant de
nominations of the 2Oth century are
lnow occupying the same ground exact
ly as taught by Thomas Paine. Lis
ten: Here are some of Paine's max
inns, all of which have been adopted by
the churches of our time.
Il believe in one God and no more
and I hope for happiness beyond the
grave
The world is my country and to do
good my religion.
Man has no property in man.
THE intellectual part of religion is
a private affair between every man
and his Maker, and in which no third
party has any right to interfere. The
practical part consists in our doing
good to each other
God is. the power, or first cause! ma.
ture is the law, and matter the sub
ject acted upon.
THE key of happiness is not in the
keeping CT any sect, nor ought the
road to it to be obstructed by any,
My dear Captain if you will analyze
the creeds of today you will find that
they occupy the position identically as
| taught by Thomas Paine, over one
century ago, and that this same Paine,
the author of that greatest of works
defending liberty, Common Sense, y
has been more maligned by the church
than any other individual from the
dawn of time-not barring Judas
Iscariot
The idea that the Bible is the found
alton of all morality and justice has
long ago been exploded, and do not
think that Captain White would write
a further certificate of his ignorance
by claiming that the rights that men,
women and children today possess,
come from the Bible. Especially is
this true regarding women and chill
dren. Women in the book are every
where occupying lower plane, even
the Mother Of us all was not asked
when she was made by the Omnipo-
tent God how she liked Adam, but
Adam was asked how he liked her. Ho
liked her and she was not consulted.
Paul takes his pen in hand to further
humiliate and degrade women. IF
woman would know anything, let her
ask he husband at home," and the
husband is the head of the wife even
as Christ is the head of the church.
The status of the old maid does not
appear in Paul's writings, but by in
ference we would have to conclude
that she was a headless monster.
Justice to children does not seem
to have made rapid progress under the
teaching of the Bible, as the Father
with rebellious son is told to bring
him to the elders and have him stoned
to death. Likewise the advice of Solo
mon, the wisest man, who is the author
OF that famous, (infamous) maxim:
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
This Solomon who knew so much
about rearing children with his latest
breath advised one of his sons to as
sassinate another Under the Mosaic
law "a crimes were punishable by
death. and now in the dawn of the
goth century many of our states in
this Union have abolished capital pun
ishment and in the others it is only
retained for murder and perhaps one
other crime.
The Bible as a text book of religion
has outgrown its usefulness, as it is
now 1000 years old and there hasn't
been an improvement in it that could
be copyrighted since the Council of
Nice. Captain White in his school
teaching days was great stickler for
modern methods and scientific pro
cedure, but when it comes to religious
matters, he suddenly changes front
and prefers the old moth-eaten fables
of antiquity To say at this time that
civilization is dependent in any man
ner on the Bible is folly. The people
have advanced in spite of the Bible
and great teachers like Voltaire,
Hume, Bruno, Copernicus,
Huxley, Tyndal, Paine, Jefferson,
Franklin, Volney and Humboldt have
each had hand in this regeneration |
They have driven superstition back
into the mists of the past, and now the
farmer, the mariner, or the doctor does
not depend on prayer, but on the things
that scientific investigators have prov
en-. We rarely hear Of people praying
for rain, or for God to take away the
grass-hoppers, and the ghosts haze
been retired from business. | will !
place in the scales as against the
weight of many millions of Christian