The Alaska socialist., 1914-04-18
1 LESSON IN TRUTR
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/ My papiAit.yas tie lnest beautiful sin tae world has ever known; it was mere ly an qnoqntrollabIs-yss -yss3ssss.ss e9exercissi -ail Sef4listinelly confe+td' 'fecaIties.
 She had received unsolicited that won- dosful gift of reason; f; 'alfi Ffth' her, to pSssess it, meant thatshe must use it.. {.
 4Raere lfad.;b cen awakened in her btsast'a desire for knowledge, thirst for Ike nectat. Of wisdom, and that thirst she dared to qtithch',' regardless of con- sequences; and because of this. .witful and stubborn courage, Christian dogmatists have compelled her daughters to bear the brunt of that internal charge that she was first in sin.
 Many times these same schis- matics have met ir solemn; conclave and like an Eucalyptus tree full of blind owls have discussed for days and days the vexing problem, Is Woman human being? Has she a soul ," And during those ages of mental poverty, centuries in which the fathers of the church seem'd determined to curse the world with intellectual midnight, a great mai ority of their number actually disdained to believe that their own mothers poss- essed a soul, and this reproach was cast upon woman, because back at the dawn of time before the helpless cry of the first offspring had awakened that stately instinct of motherhood that confers up- on her the right to first rank as the star performer i'll the great Drama of human life; back at that time in defiance of div inc fiat she determined to improve her mind. The truth of the matter is, the most priceless heritage she has trans nlitted 10 her children throughout the world is t h c faculty of reason, and the thirst fer Knowledge that surges thru the human Heart, and this inheritance alone has redeemed her progeny from barbarisn. These Doctors of Sophistry and false theological wisdom may call her disobe1iience, sin if they will, but as one of her sons claim the right to de- fend her, against all~the Gods ever in- vented by the puppets of bigotry.
 Now, my pupil, my love and admir- ation for our great and distinguished first mother has led ne away from the main subject of this lesson, to which we shall now return
 With the foregoing historical facts be- fore you, it. .is not difficult to perceive from whence the Christian idea of crucifed Saviour was borrowed; but just here another thought presents itself that we must subject to brief but careful an- alysis i. 6. That desire for, CT belief III a mediator or Saviour to rescue one from imaginary sin, is characteristic of a primitive fnfnd.
 [ Such arlthasound and silly faith had Its birth +ih tlrs minds of misguidtssidd' men when the race was. young, when every mental fdcuity was miniature. and they had not yet learned how beautiful are the ways of reason and experlence. Even in this age of Wonderful intellectual devel-' oEnent, it is almost impossible to make inc average Christian understand that that their idea, and hope, of vicarious atonement s absolutely and unspeal- ably bad, positively contrary to every lofty concept of divine justice
 ~ But let us go on with this absurd theo- logy and show from whence its every feature came.
 The Trinity is of heather origin. The Holy Ghost idea came from India. The belief in a Devil is of heathen origin Crucifixion was borrowed from the Pag- ans. - Y