Why I Am Not A Christian And Other Essays On Religion And Related Subjects
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- March 6, 1927
- Publisher
- Barlow Press
- Retrieved
- Apr 12, 2011
- ISBN
- 1409727211
- EAN
- 9781409727217
3 memes from this reference
Defects in Christ's Teachings
I am concerned with Christ as He appears in the Gospels, taking the Gospel narrative as it stands, and there one does find some things that do not seem to be very wise. For one thing, he certainly thought that His second coming would occur in clouds of glory before the death of all the people who were living at that…
The Natural Law Argument
We now find that a great many things we thought were natural laws are really human conventions. You know that even in the remotest depths of stellar space there are still three feet to a yard. That is, no doubt, a very remarkable fact, but you would hardly call it a law of nature. And a great many things that have…
We Must Look at the World Bravely and Not Through the Ignorant Eyes of the Past
We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world -- its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it... A good world needs…