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发帖数: 6791 | 1 There are many millions of people who believe the Bible to be the inspired
word of God—millions who think that this book is staff and guide, counselor
and consoler; that it fills the present with peace and the future with hope
—millions who believe that it is the fountain of law, Justice and mercy,
and that to its wise and benign teachings the world is indebted for its
liberty, wealth and civilization—millions who imagine that this book is a
revelation from the wisdom and love of God to the brain and heart of man—
millions who regard this book as a torch that conquers the darkness of death
, and pours its radiance on another world—a world without a tear.
They forget its ignorance and savagery, its hatred of liberty, its religious
persecution; they remember heaven, but they forget the dungeon of eternal
pain. They forget that it imprisons the brain and corrupts the heart. They
forget that it is the enemy of intellectual freedom. Liberty is my religion.
Liberty of hand and brain—of thought and labor, liberty is a word hated by
kings—loathed by popes. It is a word that shatters thrones and altars—
that leaves the crowned without subjects, and the outstretched hand of
superstition without alms. Liberty is the blossom and fruit of justice—the
perfume of mercy. Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew
and rain of progress, love and joy.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, "About the Holy Bible", 1894
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发帖数: 4253 | 2 以上的才是滥用Liberty的理念。
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