isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“The Chicago Times recently printed the hangman's record of the first half of the present year (1877) - a long and ghastly record of murders and hangings. Nearly every one of these murderers received religious consolation, and many announced that they had received God's forgiveness through the blood of Jesus and were going that day [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“We have often wondered at the extraordinary ideas of God and His justice that seem to be honestly held by those Christians who blindly rely upon the clergy for their religion, and never upon their own reason. How strangely illogical is this doctrine of the Atonement. We propose to discuss it with the Christians from [...]