This is going to boil some blood & so it should! Overall it was the Bible that came in for most of Silks unrelenting scourge: Ministers, Priests & preachers wonder how I can be wicked enough to attack the Bible. I will tell them. This book, the Bible has persecuted even unto death, the wisest and the best. This book stayed and stopped the onward movement of the human race. This book poisoned the fountains of learning and misdirected the energies of man. This book is the enemy of freedom, the support of slavery. This book sowed the seeds of hatred in the families and nations, fed the flames of war, and impoverished the world. This book not at all unlike the Koran is the breastwork of kings, and tyrants, the enslaver of women and children. This book was corrupted parliaments and courts. This book has made colleges and universities the teachers of error and the haters of science. This book has filled Christendom with hateful, cruel, ignorant and warring sects. This book taught men to kill their fellows for religions sake. This book founded the Inquisition, invented the instruments of torture, built the dungeons in which the good and loving languished, forged the chains that rusted in their flesh, erected the scaffolds whereon they died. This book lit fires about the feet of the just. This book drove reason from the minds of millions and filled the asylums with the insane. This book was the auction block on which the slave-mother stood when she was sold from her child. This book filled the sails of the slave trader and made merchandise of human flesh. This book breathed life into the fires that burned "witches" and wizards. "This book filled the darkness with ghouls and ghosts, and the bodies of men and women with devils. This book polluted the souls of men with the infamous dogma of eternal pain. This book made credulity, "belief", gullibility & blindly following as in "faith" the greatest of virtues, & investigation, inquiry & "cross examination" the greatest of crime & sin! This book filled nations with hermits, monks and nuns & enslaved them with the dangled carrots of the "pious", the heavenly, the godly! This book placed the ignorant and unclean saint above the philosopher and philanthropist. This book taught man to despise the joys of this life, that he might be happy in another to waste this world for the sake of the next. Exhorting them to patience & to holding out hopes of a possible compensation in the "next world" for the hardness of their lot in this one! I attack this book because it is the enemy of human liberty, the greatest obstruction across the highway of human progress. Religion getting rich selling salvation! AND NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON! chao/silk
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