"If Christ was in fact God, he knew all the future. Before him like a panorama moved the history yet to be. He knew how his words would be interpreted. He knew what crimes, what horrors, what infamies, would be committed in his name. He knew that the hungry flames of persecution would climb around the limbs of countless martyrs. He knew that; thousands and thousands of brave men and women would languish in dungeons in darkness, filled with pain. He knew that his church would invent and use instruments of torture; that his followers would appeal to whip and fagot, to chain and rack...He knew that the Inquisition would be born of the teachings attributed to him. He saw the interpolation that hypocrisy would write and tell. He saw all wars that would be waged and he knew that above these fields of death, these dungeons, these rackings, these burnings, these executions, for a thousand years would float the dripping banner of the cross... And yet he died with voiceless lips. Why did he fail to speak? Why did he not tell his disciples, and through them the world: "You shall not burn, imprison, and torture in my name. You shall not persecute your fellow-men." ... Why did he go dumbly to his death, leaving the world to misery and to doubt? I will tell you why. He was a man, and did not know." -Col. Robert Ingersoll in About the Holy Bible
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:03:48 +0000
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