The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-02-16
good to each other.

good to each other.
God is the power, or first causei ma
ture is the law, and matter the sub
ject acted upon
The key of happiness is not in the
keeping of any sect, nor ought the
road to it to be obstructed by any.
My dear Captain if you will analyze
the creeds of tcday 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
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
ldren. Women in the book are every
where occupying a 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. He
liked her and she was not consulted.
Paul takes his pen in hand to further
humiliate and degrade women If a
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
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 a 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) maxinE
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 81 crimes were punishable by
death. and now in the dawn of the
2Oth century many of our states in
this Union have abolished capital pun
lishment 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 2O00 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
f teaching days was great stickler for
1 modern methods and scientific pro-
cedure, but when it comes to religious
! matters he suddenly changes front
. and prefers the old moth-eaten fables
t of antiquity. To say at this time that
g civilization is dependent in any man
4 lner on the Bible is folly. The people
h have advanced in spite of the Bible
r and great teachers like Voltaire,
t Diderot, Hume, Bruno, Copernicus,
/ Huxley, Tyndal Paine, Jefferson
! Franklin, Volney and Humboldt have
+ each had hand in this regeneration
n They have driven superstition back
f into the msts OF the past, and now the
r farmer, the mariner, or the doctor does
a not depend on prayer, but on the things
. that scientific investigators have prov
y len. We rarely hear of people praying
; for rain, or for God to take away the
grass-hoppers, and the ghosts have
\ been retired from business will
f place in the scales as against the
t weight of many millions of Christian
i people WIZ ltStly " lAS i"NiS1 -
Ine Bible as mentioned by Brother
I White, the name of Alexander Won
r Humboldt-that wonderful and in
trepid scientist that taught us more
r of facts in connection with our earth
\ than any other man from Moses to the
+ last exhorter, and inscribed on the
granite of her eternal hills: The
+ universe is governed by law
/ No doubt when Captain White was
! teaching physical geography in the
4 long ago, his soul often cried out
t against the situation he was placed, in