Prose-Poems And Selections From the Writings And Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll
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Do we not know that this darkness lasted for a thousand years, and that during- all that time the church of Christ held with bloody hands, the sword of power ? These years were the starless midnight of our race. Art died, law was forgotten, toleration ceased to exist, charity fled from the human breast, and justice was unknown. Kings were tyrants, priests were pitiless, and the \nnn- multitude were slaves. In the name of Christ, men made instru- ments of torture, and the a/z/o cia fc took the p...lace of the gladiatorial show. Liberty was in chains, honesty in dungeons, while Christian superstition ruled mankind. Christianity compromised with Pa- ganism. The statues of Jupiter were used to repre- l86 THE CHRISTIAN NIGHT. sent Jehovah. Isis and her babe were changed to Mary and the infant Christ. The Trinity of Egypt became the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The sim- phcity of the early Christians was lost in heathen rites and Pagan pomp. The believers in the blessed- ness of poverty became rich, avaricious, and grasping ; and those who had said, " Sell all, and give to the poor," became the ruthless gatherers of tithes and taxes.
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