The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-26

tive anu DdIDdIOuS view 10 ldhe Oh III
death of a man who married unde
circumstances OF which this good G?
preacher did not approve. 1t is a pit.
that such utterances must go out t
excite disrespect for church and the
ology."
call attention of my learned op
ponents that this editorial is writer
by civilized believer in theology, and
i want you to mark the fact that this
latitude by the able editor is practical
Ily the attitude of the world today, and
is the Meme, Meme Tekel, Upharsin,
which is written on the scroll of the
dawn for all religions that depend on
the fear of an unjust, cruel and ca.
pricious God.
To return to the account of John
Jacob Astor's death which occurred in
the sinking of the Titanic last week, it
Is refreshing TO note that not all the
Priests even of the Rev Geo. Chal-
mers Richmond's Church are ghouls
and believe that God wrecked the gi-
gantic ocean liner, Titanic on purpose
to punish Astor. Bishop Partridge of
Kansas City, says in his Sunday morn
ing address in concluding a eulogy for
, the brave men and women who lost
their lives: "The magnificent reward
comes afterwards. They shall shine
as the stars of the heavens, and they
shall judge the nations according to
the promise of the word "The men
and women who nobly sacrificed their
lives that others might live, are at the
bottom of the sea so far as the ma
terial body is concerned; but their
souls have gone higher and their ex.
ample win live among men always
Their sacrifice shall be the stand
ard by which nations will be judged for
evermore."
No doubt my learned antagonists
can draw from the quotations furnish
ed something that win show to their
co-religionists the Power of the Al
mighty. In concluding my paper
want to pay my respects to the peculiar
attitude of my honorable opponents in
insinuating that because / do not be-
lieve their doctrine, l should be social
ly ostracised, should not be allowed
to live in community where the true
believers are. those who serve the
Devil days out of the week, and
swallow little bread
and wine on Sunday for the Glory of
the Lord was really surprised to
find this Religious Intolerance Spirit
so strong in my verbal antagonists,
this too in country where we have
a Constitution without a God in it, and
where we brag about universal toler- |
alton.
xI will say to my friends { p who have
been muttering as to paper allowing
my articles to be published and ad
vising people to ostracise me that This
is the same Spirit that burned Bruno
at the stake, the same Spirit that sup
pressed Galileo, that burned Servetus,
that banishe1 Luther that bounded
to his death, the same
spirit that banished Roger Williams
and Anne Hutchinson from the Massa-
chusetts Bay Colony to the Wilderness
in mid-winter. 1t is this spirit of re-
lgious bigotry and intolerance that
murdered the Quakers. the Puritans,
the Hugenots, the Moors, the Jewes, |
and in fact caused the hundreds of |
thousands of prosecutions since the
days of Christ, the spirit which does
not recognize the honest doubter. but |
calls all new theories heresies. Each |
one of the prominent seets in this City |
were at one time heretics. When they |
get strong and able to fight they are
orthodox and the new theory is the |
heretical one, Roger Williams was
the hereto of the Puritan Massaehu-
setts Bay Colony, and as a result of
his Punishment by Governor Endicott,
we have the present Missionary Bap- |
tist Church.
John and Charles Wesley were |
heretics fro mthe standpoint of the
Church of England; but where would |
the Methodist Church be today if it |
hadn't been for these two dissenters.
r hgions and religious systems are
changed, and Pagan Bob
has well said
why should we sacrifice real
world that we have for one we know |
not of? Why should we enslave our
selves? Why should We forge fetters
for our own hands? Why should We
be the slaves of phantoms
that we create ourselves? The dark
ness of barbarism was the womb of
these shadows. In the light of science
they cannot cloud the sky forever.
They have Redeemed the hands of man
With innocent blood. They made the
cradle a curse, and the grave place |
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