T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , N O V EM BER 18, 1897.
engine«, electric moters and lights. Brazil; and no one knows how soon lem the Jew s were again and again the dawn of literatu re; never were
We devise telephones, and an end- another may reveal himself, nor in m oit exquisitely punished by the m orals at a lower ebb in any part
I less
pkb array
a r r a v of
o f contrivances,
e o n t ri v a ric e s, a all
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to what land he maV
a o o e a r - Romans.
R om an«.
I n later
l a t e r centuries
c e n t u r i e s they
th e v .
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may make his appear
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add to the pleasure or comfort of ance. The dem and for saviors fell under the m alig n an t curse of , n ,e lect 80 b,'tt ilderid an d para-
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for what we expect to accomplish to keep pace with the dem and.
of years treated them to unheard trib u tio n of terrors. The C hrist
next.
More than 2000 years ago Confu- of barbarities — drowned th em , had saved Europe, and his salva-
W hat a contrast to th at
other cius taught the Chinese his pre- slaughtered them ,
hanged them, tlon was / h e deepest dam nation
view, which puts on the dark
garb, cepts, a set of rules and a system burned them at the stake, and out-
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and wears the sober face; th at sends of etiquette, from which they have raged the survivors in every known where, aud everyw here as vile and
us to the nunneries and m onkeries never dared to depart to tins day. way.
foul as can be conceived. C hrist
of the C hristian era. Today we The m oral teachings of Confucius
V erih salvation has dam ned the had saved the em pire, and tu rn ed
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build schools ami halls of science, are as tine and beautiful as could Jew to a degree alm ost u n p aralleled it into a huge corpse, in w hich the
Then they built m onastaries and well he im agined; and the Chinese in hum an experience. The Jew ish priestly m aggots . swarmed
. . . and
. . fat-
dungeons. Today we cherish
life have a far
better
and more law is a veritable m illstone around indeed to conceive bow Europe
and make
the most of it. Then elaborate training in ethics th an their necks, and
they seem quite could ever have arisen from the un-
they folded hands, counted the any other nation, ancient or mod- unconscious of the depth of d»-gra- u tterable degradation of C hrist &
Ivation has Co” , if the hated M oham m edan
beads, and prayed for the call to ern, ever had. But Confucius en- dation to which t Heir salv„
had
or sm ug-
come which would carry them throned ancient men and antique reducer I them . Thev. too. though scholars
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r,. . not brought
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away to Realm s of Im aginary notions; he turned p aren ts into keen in Imssness and not behind the old Grecian and R om an lcarn-
Peace— hut which is,as far as I can gods and children into slavish, ab- other people in lite ratu re and in ing and science. Never was dam -
learn as a stu d en t of science, the ject worshippers. The result is th a t general intellectual a b ilits, find nation so deep as the salvation
Peace of D eath—the sleep th at China has been for 2000 years a them selves com pletely paralized
bestowed upon the R om an
empire.
know s no w aking.
J sw am p , a s ta g n a n t pool, a n a tio n in presence of th e ir w retched law s '
Live this life, my young friends, of hard-w orking, m echanical m ar- and traditions. T heir salvation
J e8son th a t n a tu ra lly rises
i bent. v n ii P a n ' f n r » v n n r n w n u n n ri > I io n e ttC H Or a u t o ~ m a t a
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as best you can for your own good ionettes or autom ata, none daring has enslaved them ,
is th at saviors of m ankind, in the
and the good of fellow-men, and in , to have an opinion of his own. On-
But we m ust come to the fiction religious sense, can never save; th a t
the hearts of those th a t knew you, ly in the past few years has China called C hrist, or the C hrist, or they rob m an of the only possible
you will live an im m ortal life shown even a desire to advance; Jesus of N azareth. This fiction is elem ents of salv atio n — h is o w n v ir-
the E uropeans tlle and HeJf; reliance- T rust in an-
worth endless tiresom e ages of and any aw akening she has e x p e r-, th e savior of
harp-tw anging in the “ Land be­ enced has come from w ithout, and whom our fathers are said to h a v e , , il)ies a n (, im b e ciles of a ll ty p es-
yond the skies.”
lias been a t the expense of the Con- taken over, more or less com plete, but m anhood is self-reliant, ’ self-
(A fter an hour of pleasant con­ fucian cast-iron system of life.
¡from the A siatics For h<»w m any saving. No savior ever saved a m an
The Jews, somehow, m any cen- centuries before the tim e of Con- v Rhout dam ning and spoiling h im ;
versation, the com pany broke up.
m ental or m oral
Some of the young men left written turies back, p u t their necks into a stan tin e the fiction called C hrist nor c ver !‘an.*
questions for future discussion.)
avage and degrading halter, and had been honored or worshiped in ty ra n ts, and to subm it to him is to
Dr. Brown; (Sitting again alone they wear it still. Let us take them the R om an em pire is not certain ly become the lowest slave.
A saved
in bis study, warm ing his feet be­ on their own showing, and say that known; hut th a t em peror, early in m an is such a slave th a t he fears
fore the fire as was his w ont.) the m ythical Moses gave them their th e fourth century of this era, took d is o w n thoughts and opinions*
Lhi8 » ^ s e s or his reas-
W ell, well, 1 wonder if I am doing Jaw, their ceremonies and their C hrist under Ids* especial patron- fearf to
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i Inn, u the im perial god,
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to hold
opinion
those boys any good. J wish I liiPfi
U te., that
th a t tl.o
the u .a id o M \ o f .e .. H w a .th
|,„ fears
ha8 not
,leen any
¿(im'
tnall(le,i th a t
could read th eir m inds.
savior; and let us look at the re-I and set his bishops and priests in hold, and he dreads the rejection of
ults. Moses bound th e Jews hand high posts of honor and power in the most absurd dogma he has been
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governm ent. The C hrist of tau g h t to believe necessary to his
wishing to ask the “ Old Doctor” a them , wrapped round with end-
C onstantine was not the G alilean salvation.
question or express an opinion u p ­
Nothing can exceed the d eg rad a­
less bandages of ceremony and su- peasant, the ex* cuted convict, Jesus
on any of the subjects covered bv n e r w titln n
tion 01
of the m an iii
in a state of salva-
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perntition, gnm rnel,
glued or (if I here ever was such a one), b u t , tion. He persuades him self th a t he
these papers, can address him care p p m o n to ii w i t h
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C urrent Thought, 802 Ansel Ave.,
lieve them . H e fears to th in k u p ­
th an disobey his stupid and ty ran - em peror’s purp o se.
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th e saving dogm as, lest he
nical savior, would die rath e r th an
But no m atter whence the God
eat leavened bread a t the Passover C hrist came, or w hat was his should he dam ned for behaving like
a rational being.
He has been
How the W orld’s Saviours Have time, or eat linkoshered m eat at n a tu re or origin, he became the taught th a t his savior will save
Cursed It.
any time. H e cannot explain this, savior of the Rom an world; and it none but the most a rra n t fools, and
he only feels it. blindly feels it, and is our present business to see how th a t the most perfect folly is the
One very rem arkable fact in is powerless; his intellect is ahso- he saved it. Probably the em pire, highest possible wisdom.
hum an history is the enormous lutely paralized in presence of the when it fell to C onstantine and the
Nor is th at all. The saved m an,
num ber of saviors th a t have ap ­ “ duties’ imposed upon him by his ; C hrist, was in its prime; and if the C h rist’s lackey or slave, is fully
persuaded th a t it is his d u ty to
peared. No nation or tribe has
savage ancestors. And all this he there was any thing the m atter with hate and to injure his neighbor who
been w ithout one or more of them. endures in the hope of Salvation!
its constitution or health, the new despises his religion or his shade of
In various ways, physical, sp iritu al,
Look at his history. The Bible im perial god was to cure all th a t the sam e religion which he shares
and m oral, they have volunteered rom ancers have sketched for us in a very short time. The old Pa- with th a t neighbor.
He slanders
(or been supposed to have done so) what is generally held to be the ganisin was ruthlessly p u t down to him , m urders his character, and is
to save m ankind. One has gone Jew s’ real history. Well, after m ake way for the newly concocted only restrained by the police from
about the world killing m onsters Moses had saved the nation and superstition; and the ruthless de­ m urdering him , too, for rejecting
the vile slavery in which he h im ­
and vermin, like Hercules, Jack n u d e it G od’s own, there ensued struction of Paganism tore the em- self wallows. The saved m an will
the G iant K iller, St. Patrick and 900 years of wild confusion, alter- P’re itself so badly th a t it never re- either bring all men down to his
own level, or m urder them if he has
others; another has given laws or nate enslavem ent, revolt and free-1 c<>vf re.d ‘ .
a set of ceremonies to a tribe or dom from foreign domination; then
rU!er Hlld 8“ vi'”' the power.
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of Hie Roman em pire, and from
I have indicated but a few of the
nation; another has revealed the „ captivity
in Babylon for ,0 years th a t moment the empire began to
mind and will of some god; others and enforced residence am ongst the fail. In a few generations the bar- evils and horrors of salvation, or.
results issuing from the setting
have performed wonderful miracles: hated Gentiles. After their retu rn Marians conquered Rome and all the
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u. saviors.
8av.u.s. Saviors
oaviors have
nave been
neen
up
and some have suffered, died and to Palestine they were conquered ’V" ^>OSH !Jtdo,,s> a ” d f°r the next m an ’s greatest curse; and the worst
risen again to bless and save m an ­ and crushed bv the Greeks then hv ’*loU8and years Euro;»e became of saviors and salvations are those
the R om ans and tboir n J î i . i
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kind.
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People who think the tribe of country destroyed am idst the most ti«»n of Greece and Rome and their tion and all m orals ’where thev
saviors now ended little know the frightful
m g n u u i slaughter,
r iBuKiiicr, the
m e rem nant be-
nuned have unlim ited swav.
It is our
niqg 1111,1
and science were buried
— aa __ i u through
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i . . the _ Roman limiter
i * d u ty to do
i what
■ we can to destroy
nature of m ankind. Only a few • ing scattered
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(liiys since one of them whs killed em pire
underfoot l>v
by saintly icnomnpp
ignorance nnd
and thp
the salvation schemes, and set men
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