Author : Joseph Treat
Release : 2015-06-25
Genre : Self-Help
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis God, Religion, and Immortality by : Joseph Treat
Download or read book God, Religion, and Immortality written by Joseph Treat. This book was released on 2015-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from God, Religion, and Immortality: An Oration, Delivered at the Paine Celebration in Cincinnati, Sunday, January 29, 1860 My Brothers, I am afraid you will be disappointed. I have not come to praise Thomas Paine, but to be Thomas Paine - to go as far beyond this age, as he went beyond his age - and then to go as much beyond him, as he did beyond others. I have come to be Thomas Paine to Thomas Paine. I have come to supersede the Age of Reason! Be brave enough to hear me. No man has business here to-day celebrating Thomas Paine, whose heart does not leap to make this Commemoration a Funeral - the Funeral of Superstition: both the Superstition Thomas Paine exploded, and as much, the other that he left. Even if you cannot accept what I utter, yet at least, let it pass in at one ear and out at the other. Dare to allow free discussion in America one hour! Be as brave as Thomas Paine! He threw down his gauntlet to the world. I but take it up. He accepted no quarter. Then ask me to give him none. No more bid me cease combating him, than he ever ceased combating others. But follow on, while I make a full end of the work he commenced - the Superstition he spared! Let two wrestle together with none to stop but the final Truth! Be as brave as I am. Dare to hear, what I dare to speak; and dare to let me speak, what I dare to think. Expect what I say to shock you, subvert you, overwhelm you - but let me say it. Hate what I say, abhor it, trample it - but give me that right to say it. This country is not worth a song, if a man may not utter his thought! Once and for all, I challenge you, Let a man say what he thinks! There is No God! God is the first, great, eternal mistake of the Age of Reason! God is the grand, pivotal mistake of all systems! God is the great central Superstition, round which all other Superstitions cling! God is the sole foundation of Bibles, Sabbaths, Churches, Priesthoods, Religions, Resurrections, Judgments, Heavens, Hells, Spirits, Spirit-Worlds, all! I strike home at this root! If there is a God, men can know it; but nobody does know it. If there is a God, there must be proof of the fact; but there is no proof. If there is a God, there is a thing; but there is no thing, and there is nothing. If there is a God, what he is makes men see that he is; but they never see anything, but always take everything for granted. If there is a God, somebody must have produced some argument for him; but nobody has ever produced one. 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.
