The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-12-21
LET US, EMBRACE THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE
THE RELIGION OF LOVE, REASON, AND
HUMANITY!
By JULIUS F. TAYLOR

extremely revengeful to those who
refused to march under its banner.
Tertullian, one of the Latin fathers
of the church at that time and a de-
voted follower of the sainted Con-
stantine, exclaimed, II expect the
greatest of all spectacles, the last the
eternal judgment of the universe.
How shall | admire, how laugh, how
rejoice, how exult, when behold so
many proud monarchs and fancied
gods growing in the lowest abyss of
darkness; so many magistrates who
prosecuted the name of the Lord; IL
outlying in fiercer fires than they
ever kindled against the followers of
Jesus; so many sage philosophers
blushing in red hot flames with their
deluded followers; so many celebrated
poets trembling before the tribunal,
not of Minos, but of Christ"
To a greater or less extent the ad-
herents of Jesus, in this, the TWEEN
tieth century, entertain the same bit
ter ideas and hatred against those
whose religious views are contrary to
theirs, and to a large extent their
sentiments are in harmony with the
sentiments which Tertullian enter
tanned against that same class in his
day and time. 1t is, therefore, a re-
markable fact that the five hundred
million people who are scattered
throughout the world who profess to
have the name of Jesus encircled in
their hearts will wrangle for their re-
ligion, fight for it, and die for it and
endure any and everything for it, but
they at all times utterly refuse or
fail to live for it.
Many of the theologians and the
other followers of Jesus have for al
most two thousand years continued
to rail against the Jewish people or
the Roman authorities for causing his
death. They seem to lose sight of
the fact that if he was sent to this
earth from his heavenly father for
the special purpose of judging the
living and the dead, and to redeem
mankind from sin and corruption, it |
made no material difference whether
he embraced death upon the cross or
died from some disease, for he was
subject to all the laws of nature, and
none of natures laws were suspend
ed when he entered nor when he left |
this world of pain and sorrow.
Every rational being is willing to
agree with the theologians that Je-
sus suffered intense agony while he
was upon the cross, but that suffer
ing or pain lasted only few hours,
and it was nothing in comparison to
the honor and glory which has been
and will continue to be heaped upon
him by his five hundred million fol-
lowers, for it must be admitted that
Jesus is ten million times more alive
today and a billion times more be-
loved since his death upon the cross.
There is no disposition upon our
part on this occasion to enter into
a long discussion on the merits or
dement's or the superiority of the re-
ligion founded by the followers of
Jesus, who loudly boast that it ex-
GELS in purity, morality and benevo-
lence all the ancient or older systems
Of religion; suffice it to say on this
point that wherever the religion of
the cross has prevailed, race preju-
dice, slavery, immortality, misery, pow
ertyv degradation, drunkenness, vice
and crimes of every description have
always fiourished like a green bay
tree, and more evil and injustice exist
IN the world today than existed prior
10 the advent of the Christian re-
igion. For within the past four years 7
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