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...God told her to do something. Stirred by the strange blind loyalty of ignorance, she did it. When the day came for her to die on a blazing woodpile she did not understand. God had not explained to her the historical values of martyrdom...
...fulfilled prophecies and the vitality of the Bible under adverse circumstances to prove his case. Dr. Potter, on the other hand, went after specific phrases and historical facts, and showed fairly convincingly that word for word, the Bible is not always as exact and reliable as the word of God might reasonably be expected to be. More than that, he pointed out contradictions of the generally expressed spirit of the Bible in those blood curdling admonitions which have always worried the more logical harried...
...what is religion? The Oxford Dictionary defines it as "Human recognition of superhuman controlling power, and especially of a personal God entitled to obedience." Religion is the natural outcome of human experience both rational and mystical; it is a recognition of those principles which are beyond the direct comprehension of man. Religion took the form of recognition of a personal God, because that was the simplest and apparently the most logical explanation man could find. But recently he has found other explanations, equally inadequate, perhaps, but nevertheless explanations which he is able to believe more whole-heartedly...
...objections chiefly on the danger of widespread immorality if contraceptive information is freely available, especially to unmarried persons. The fear of pregnancy they believe to be the most effective check to promiscuity with the majority of people. Birth control is artificial, unnatural and an offense against the laws of God, in the same class with abortion and infanticide. On the medical side, there is also the fact that some methods are injurious to health...
William Jennings Bryan: "My head covered with a skull cap, I made an address before the Brooklyn Jewish forum on the subject, What The World Needs. My solution was that obedience to God's laws, is the one and and only thing needed to set all things right...