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Vindiciae Christianae; A Comparative Estimate of the Genius and Temper of the Greek, the Roman, the Hindu, the Mahometan, and the Christian Religions


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the few who were more wise, were to discover additional grounds for the hesitation of their faith, or the incredulity of their scepticism. The wild absurdities which were thus displayed, seem not to have diminished the reverence of the people. While the Greek permitted and extolled the strange impieties of the dramatist, he punished the philosophical heterodoxy of Socrates with death; and while the Roman delighted in the theatrical representation of the unprincipled intrigues of his divinities f, he was singularly attentive to the rites, and singularly devoted to the most superstitious articles, of his creed. The solemnity of the belief was, in no wise, disturbed by the mockery of the representation. It was imagined that nothing was more likely, in times of public exigency and distress, to conciliate the favour and appease the wrath of the gods, than to exhibit their wanton frauds and licentious amours for popular amusement; and there is no doubt that the ludicrous and familiar, or brutal and disgusting character in which those gods were represented by the comic poet, perfectly accorded with the prevailing persuasions of the national faith J. It may be now admitted that the religion of the Roman and of the Greek was equally corrupt and pernicious in its primary and essential principle, and unworthy of the adoption of the most credulous and superstitious people. To good morals it could lend no aid. To genuine piety it could afford nomotive. The wantonness, the folly, and the profligacy, of its gods; the more than human vices by which they were degraded; their jealousies, discords, and caprices, 'so base and worthless, might inspire irreverence or contempt, but could awaken no emotion of holiness, and improve no motive of. virtue. Every crime, and every appetite and passion, m...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458947697
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458947696
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 354 gr


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