Download or read book Thoughts of a Free Thinker Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thoughts of a Free-Thinker I '1' would be affectation on the part of the writer of this book to pretend that he expects it to be received without protest, and probably vehement and angry protest, by most of the clergy and many of the laity of the various Christian denominations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book Lincoln the Freethinker Classic Reprint written by Joseph Lewis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lincoln the Freethinker In order to be a Christian it is necessary to believe the Bible to be a divinely inspired book. To be a Freethinker it is essential that you reject the Bible as a revelation from God. To determine, then, whether a person is a Christian or a Freethinker should indeed be very simple. A person may believe in God and yet reject the Bible as a divine book. Such a person; cannot be a Christian believer, but may be a Freethinker. A person may believe in the Bible, and according to his particular interpretation be any one of the following divisional sects of Christianity: Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist. Episcopalian, Congregationalist, Seventh Day Adventist, Holy Roller or Holy Jumper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Freethinker 1965 Vol 85 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Freethinker, 1965, Vol. 85 Man, arbitrariness is the nub. That's why there's more to this than meets your short-changed eye. See, if there's a kid called god, he could appear in any way he wanted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Freethinker s Text Book Vol 1 written by Charles Bradlaugh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Freethinker's Text-Book, Vol. 1: Religion, What and Why? Or God = X He saw two conceptions of the world to be logically tenable: Materialism and Scepticism. He rejected both, and strove to reconcile what was true in both with what was true in the dpriori doctrine. He called his system a Criticism. His Object was to examine into the nature of this experience which led into scepticism. While men were agreed that experience was the source Of all knowledge, Kant asked himself, What is this experience what are its elements? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Freethinker s Text Book Vol 2 written by Annie Besant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Freethinker's Text Book, Vol. 2: Christianity Dulaure, Histoire Abregee de Differens Cultes Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History Gibbon, Decline and Fall Glennie, In the Morning Land Hyde, quoted by Giles 378. 379 Inman, Ancient Faiths' 376, 379 Jpnes, Sir W., Asiatic Researches Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews Wars of the Jews Justin Martyr, First Apology Kalisch, Historical and Critical Commentary Keim, Jesus of Nazara'i Lake, Plato, Philo, and Paul 363. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book The Freethinker s Text Book Vol 3 written by Charles Watts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Freethinker's Text-Book, Vol. 3: Freethought By-and-bye Mohammed began to follow the custom of the Christian hermits and anchorites he accustomed him self to retire to a cave in Mount Hera, near Mecca, in which he either did, or pretended to, indulge in acts of meditation and prayer. He had, in all probability, become. Impressed with a truth which Mr. Bosworth Smith Mohammed and Mohammedanism, sec. Cd., p.' has since enunciated: Neither Christianity nor Judaism ever struck deep root in the Arabian soil. The people2 were not suited to them, or they were not suited to thei people. They lived on, on sufferance only, till a faith, which to the Arabs should be the more living one, should sweep them away. The turn of Arabia came-to use an expression of Voltaire - and came when it did because the aspirant Mohammed was sufficiently clear-sighted to, descry in the social and religious state of his countrymeni the prepared foundation upon which to effect a mighty political revolution, which should be lasting because that it at the same time was a radical social revolution. It is not necessary to the object of the present treatise that we take any positive side as to the prophet's sincerity whether, as Dr. Draper alleges, that Mohammed was the victim of mental hallucination, or, as others assert, that he was a conscious impostor. Possibly it might be said, both of Mohammed and Swedenborg, that a long-continued con templation or meditation would be very likely to engender hallucination. It cannot, we think, he denied that Mohammed used his pretended revelations from heaven to promote the success of his cause and on the whole - after a careful examination of almost all that has been urged upon both sides of the question - we consider there is much truth in the estimate of this extraordinary man, in the following citation from the historian of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - j 'of his last years, ambition was the ruling passion and a politician will suspect that he mohammed] secretly smiled (the victorious impostor at the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his prose lytes. In a note to this last sentence Gibbon quotes a sentence from Voltaire, who said that Mohammed might be compared to a fakeer (indian priest or vagrant monk) who detaches the chain from his own neck by bestowing it on the ears of his confreres. A philosopher will observe, continues the historian, that their credulity and iris success would tend more strongly to fortify the assurance of his divine mission, that his interest and religion were insepar ably connected, and that his conscience would be soothed by the persuasion that he alone was absolved by the Deity from the obligation of positive and moral laws. If he re tained any vestige of his native innocence, the sins of Mohammed may be allowed as an evidence of his sincerity. In the support of truth, the arts of fraud and fiction may be deemed less criminal; and he would have started at the foulness of the means had he not been satisfied of the im portance and justice of the end. (gibbon, Decline and Fall, chap. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Letter to the Free Thinkers Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Letter to the Free-Thinkers I come now to the Second, viz. That where; foever a Divine Revelation is vouchfaf'd who foever {hall wilfully aet contrary thereto, is noc only guilty of the groifeft Error, but likewife fub jeas himfelf to the utmofi Mifery. To make this fully appear, I {hall go as far back as Adam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Free Thinker Vol 1 written by Henry Nevill Abergavenny and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Free-Thinker, Vol. 1: From 1718, Sapere Aude The free-thinker has, of late Years, been fo much the Subject of Satyr and Ridicule, and his Charae'ter expofed with {0 much Wit and Humour by fome ingenious Writers, and {o blackened With Reflections drawn from Reli gion and Politicks by other more ferions Au thours, that {carce any one dares at prefent think his Soul his Own; or, in other Words, entrufl himfelf with his own Thoughts; much lers take the Liberty to {peak them: And he muff be a bold Man indeed, who {hall ven ture {0 far as to publilh them in Print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book The Freethinker s Textbook Vol 1 written by C. Bradlaugh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Freethinker's Textbook, Vol. 1: Man, Whence and How? Or, Revealed and Real Science in Conflict Nor is the theory of man's gradual development more difficult than the dogma of Adam's sudden creation. No man has ever witnessed the introduction of a new species of living animal, and yet geology affirms the introduction and cessation of many types and species. Vast periods have been necessary for these evolutions, periods transcending the limits of any possible Bible chronology. According to the Bible, the first man's intellectual condition must have been of the highest order according to science, early man groped in a state of utter barbarism, out of which he has slowly and only partially emerged. The evidences of man's antiquity on the earth have much increased during the last generation. While in historic investigation doubt has been thrown on the vasf' ages claimed, fifty years since, in Hindostan and Assyria, it has become clear that to pre-historic man an age must be accorded, beside which the long chronologies of India and Egypt dwindle into the pettiest arrays of insignificant figures. At present an endeavour will be made to marshal some few of the facts demonstrating man's existence on the earth prior to the date given in Genesis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.