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... THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSL... ... A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING, A.M. Volume I ... ............325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS............................................... ... greatly afflicted because of the present unawakened and even dead condition of all the churches, with respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ... ...y worldly principles and confederacies, and hasten the ruin and downfall of the present churches. And now, forasmuch as it is to those who look for h... ...e earth an ark of testimony; and to that end will turn his Holy Spirit unto his ancient people the Jews, and bring unto them those days of refreshin... ...ness and peace harmonized, and goodness reigning universally. Fye, oh, fye upon it! ye Christians have fathered upon the scriptures the optimism of ... ...and real character upon the other; both centering in and radiating out from the Jewish people.’ And this appeared to me to be written in these the ... ...hich shall come upon them, from this contempt and abandonment, when they see themselves excommunicated from all the human race. This temptation and ...

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...emingly set in an "angry tone" as this was the first time he accused the pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franciscan Thomas Murner, in hopes that he would make people aware of the foolishness of supporting Luther....

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... THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY OF THE CHURCH 1520 Translated by A. T. W. Steinhäuser and revised by Frederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross... ...ive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rom... ...nters and takes her central stronghold and sanctuary—the sacramental system by which she accompanied and controlled her members from the cradle to t... ...could he set forth, in language of almost lyrical rapture, The Freedom of a Christian. 2 Luther was thinking of such a treatise long before it was ... ...o German, confident that it would expose Luther to the rank and file of the people as a radical heretic and dangerous foe of the church. Of special s... ... On the other hand, the Captivity cleared the atmosphere for many thoughtful people and brought Luther not a few new friends. The most outstanding ex... ...” It was not the church which ordained these things, but the tyrants of the churches, without the consent of the church, which is the people of God.... ...of view, the Greeks and Bohemians are in the right, for they are particular churches. Hence it is sufficient that they do not act contrary to Paul, ... ... his fault, brought before the church, accused, and if he will not hear, be excommunicated. He “hears” if he heeds the rebuke and acknowledges and c...

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...R RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Klein... ............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...s who like Szechwan and Thai.‖ --―My taste buds have been destroyed by jalapenos and habaneras so I‘ll go for your hottest recommendation. Wha... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ...nk and file think of as important. Then there was the archbishop who was excommunicated by the Pope because he had ordained some married men and ha... ...t, God is on your side. Martin Luther tried to reform the Church and was excommunicated, and we have done well without him.‖ WE MUST THINK MORE DE... ...son he wrote ‗My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than...

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...ELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 53 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? 57 WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN? 63 DEISM 65 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM 67 AGNOSTICISM 68 ATHEISM 71 SATANISM 96 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENT...

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... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 6 OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS By ... ................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ...................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY REL... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...is highly likely that you would be a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christ... ...eir values. And yet we call ourselves homo sapiens! ―As I‘m sure Wanda mentioned, we can tell what we value by how we act. The strongly Christ... ... orgasm? ―I‘m sure you are familiar with that polygamous sect that calls itself Mormon, although it has long since been rebuked and excomm... ...ume that god is not all-powerful or all-knowing. People affirm God‘s will in explaining why tsunamis and forest fires kill babies and destroy church...

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... SPLITNESS By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January ... ...tter understanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is; very little. B... ...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ... The earliest symbol of Christianity also represents a Big Bang: it represents the huge expans... ...reaking is that it successfully explains the idea of Intelligent Design which Christian fundamentalists use in trying to refute the Big Bang Theory o... ...ms is based upon competition and cooperation… is the same as if all Christian Churches preached that it is Good and Holy to love and hate God. Yet n... ...sion. So the Doctor has two choices: be a good Catholic, or be expelled and excommunicated and burned at the stake, and lose your job, your standi... ... church from European society. So Luther tried to reform the church. And was excommunicated for his audacity, and was forced to create his own Chri...

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... THAT WHICH IS ONLY A VENIAL SIN. ........................................................................................................ 38 HOW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED. ................................................................... 44 HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING. ...................... 49 THE KING?S SWEETHEART .......

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...Omoo Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omo... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...ence gathered, however, I learned to my surprise that, in some things, the people of Hivarhoo, though of the same group of islands, differed considera... ...slands, where we were going to refit, abounding with delicious fruits, and peopled by a race almost wholly unsophisticated by in- tercourse with stran... ... have treated them kindly. Indeed, nominally, many of these people are now Christians; and, through the political influ- ence of their instructors, no... ...riests actually picknicked in grove of cocoa-nut trees; but, before night, Christian hospitality—in exchange for a commercial equiva- lent of hard dol... ... mornings, when the prospect is rather small for a full house in the minor churches, a parcel of fellows are actually sent out with ratans into the hi... ...several who were able to read it with facility. They have also established churches, and schools for both children and adults; the latter, I regret to... ... not what it ought to be. She, and also her mother, were, for a long time, excommunicated members of the Church; and the former, I believe, still is. ...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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Excerpt: A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke, translated by William Popple.

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...A Letter Concerning T oleration by John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke, trans. Willia... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke, trans. William Popple, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ...are pleased to inquire what are my thoughts about the mutual toleration of Christians in their dif ferent professions of religion, I must needs answe... ...be the chief char acteristic mark of the true Church. For whatsoever some people boast of the antiquity of places and names, or of the pomp of their ... ...and good will in gen eral towards all mankind, even to those that are not Christians, he is certainly yet short of being a true Chris tian himself. ... ... that those should sincerely and heart ily apply themselves to make other people Christians, who have not really embraced the Christian religion in t... ...vil right, comes also to cease. For there is no civil injury done unto the excommunicated person by the church minister’s refusing him that bread and ... ...ns differing from one another in religion, I understand also of particular churches which stand, as it were, in the same relation to each other as pri... ...ever they think fit. What can be the meaning of their asserting that kings excommunicated forfeit their crowns and kingdoms? It is evident that “Toler...

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Preface: Androcles and the Lion. On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw.

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...Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................................................................ 7 WHY JES...

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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics S... ...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ation Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... his victories, his empires, his millions of money, and his moralities and churches and po- litical constitutions. “This man” has not been a failure y... ...here have been one or two grotesque attempts at it by in- 8 Shaw adequate people, such as the Kingdom of God in Munster, which was ended by crucifixi... ...p who took the part of Annas went home and died of horror. But responsible people have never made such attempts. The moneyed, respectable, capable wor... ...f of divine wrath by actual money payments to priests, or, in the reformed churches which discountenance this, by subscriptions to charities and churc... ... leaders of the resultant agitations rancor- ously deposed one another and excommunicated one an- other according to their luck in enlisting the emper...

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...A T reatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...birth: in fact if you went on breeding, you would finally have to kill old people to make room for young ones. Now death is not necessarily a failure ... ...eath is not necessarily a failure of energy on the part of the Life Force. People with no imagination try to make things which will last for ever, and... ...t Mamma, who made the child learn the Sermon on the Mount, is not really a Christian. The Sin of Nadab and Abihu BUT THERE IS ANOTHER sort of answer i... ... the danger into which morality has led us: the danger of persecution. One Christian spreading his doctrines may seem more mischievous than a dozen th... ...ld has caused least inconvenience,” he would probably be unfrocked, if not excommunicated. And yet no honest and intellectually capable doctor or pars... ...tially communi- cated historical objective knowledge of all the creeds and Churches. Just as a child, no matter what its race and color may be, should... ...s organized in T urkey in mosques in the name of Mahomet and in England in churches in the name of Christ, a T urkish child joining the Church of Engl...

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...t) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...RS I WAS OF OPINION that the doctrine and history of so ex- traordinary a people were worthy the attention of the curious. T o acquaint myself with t... ...l do me the honour to inform me of the particulars of your religion.” “The people of thy country,” replied the Quaker, “are too full of their bows and... ...the Quaker, “nor any of my brethren.” “Zounds!” say I to him, “you are not Christians, then.” “Friend,” replies the old man in a soft tone of voice, “... ...t tone of voice, “swear not; we are Chris- tians, and endeavour to be good Christians, but we are not of opinion that the sprinkling water on a child’... ...e priests of this sect receive but very inconsiderable stipends from their churches, and consequently cannot emulate the splendid luxury of bishops, t... ...the OEdipus of Sophocles was the work of the evil spirit; that Terence was excommunicated ipso facto; and added, that doubtless Brutus, who was a very... ...as OEdipus. Lastly, he declared that all who frequented the the- atre were excommunicated, as they thereby renounced their baptism. This was casting t...

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...THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The ... ...E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ... the news of this, Paris, all in terror, seemed a city taken by storm: the churches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests an... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...En- chantress; or gallantly presenting her with dwarf Negroes;— and a Most Christian King has unspeakable peace within doors, whatever he may have wit... ...which nevertheless hangs won- drously as by a single hair. Should the Most Christian King die; or even get seriously afraid of dying! For, alas, had n... ...rment; pet son (her last-born?) of the Scarlet Woman. Talleyrand-Perigord, excommunicated Consti- tutional Bishop, will make his way to London; to be ... ...LLEYRAND-PERIGORD, Bishop, notice of, at fatherland’s altar, his blessing, excommunicated, in London, to America. TALLIEN, notice of, editor of ‘Ami d...

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...GETTING MARRIED and “Preface to Getting Married” by George Bernard Shaw 1908 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ... 1908 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...l bond. I do not observe that their unions prove less monogamic than other people’s: rather the contrary, in fact; consequently, I do not know whether... ...act; consequently, I do not know whether they make less fuss than ordinary people when either party claims the benefit of the treaty; but the existenc... ...at all. He means monogamy, chastity, temperance, respectability, morality, Christianity, anti-socialism, and a dozen other things that have no necessa... ...English women will one day succeed in obliter- ating from the walls of our churches by refusing to enter any building where they are publicly classed ... ... ears, burnt palms, a flogging, or a few years in the galleys. That is why Christianity never got any grip of the world until it virtually reduced its... ...so largely a rebellion against sacerdotalism that marriage was very nearly excommunicated again: our modern civil marriage, round which so many fierce...

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... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ectronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Edit... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...vine Comedy of Dante Hell 77 Not with the Saracens or Jews (his foes All Christians were, nor against Acre one Had fought, nor traffic’d in the So... ...It seems to have been a common opinion among the Jews, as well as among many Christians, that the general judgment will be held in the valley of Josap... ...ons.] This appears to allude to certain prayers which were offered up in the churches of Florence, for deliverance from the hostile attempts of the Ub... ...arles of Anjou in 1265, alluded to in Canto XXVIII, of Hell, v. 13, “Dying, excommunicated, King Charles did allow of his being buried in sacred grou... ...The “xtinguished lights “ formed part of the ceremony t the interment of one excommunicated. v. 130. Hope.] Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde...

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...the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the oth...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity.... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...laim to be considered a person of superior intellect—though I believe some people have been extraordinary enough to con- sider me so; one so little hu... ...and I really don’ t know, as Paul is going to be very grand, and these are people of condition, that she would have been quite presentable, and might ... ...st; I have been tried today but on the whole I do not regret it.’ In which Christian spirit, Mrs Chick dried her eyes and smoothed her lap, and sat as... ...h his shoulders very much raised, and his hands in his pockets. While poor excommunicated Miss T ox, who, if she were a fawner and toad-eater, was at ... ...d and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr Dombey—while poor excommunicated Miss T ox watered her plants with her tears, and felt that i... ...e going,’ said the Manager, with the snarl of a tiger-cat, ‘to recite some Christian precept, I observed.’ ‘Nay , James,’ returned the other, ‘though ... ... that way , and flowing, indifferently , past marts and mansions, prisons, churches, market-places, wealth, poverty, good, and evil, like the broad ri...