RELIGION V. FREETHOUGHT

Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 1, 1 October 1883, Page 12

RELIGION V. FREETHOUGHT

The principal business of the day with great nations is to destroy one another. Millions of men have been killed in the name of religion.— Every nation is groaning under the burthen of debt incurred in carrying on wars against other Christian nations. The world is covered with forts to keep Christians from killing Christians, and every sea is covered with iron monsters made to blow Chrisian brains into froth. Verily, it is sweet to see brethren dwell together in unity. There must be some other way to civilize and humanize man, We have tried creed and dogma and superstition, and they have failed miserably. Let us try liberty. We need Freethought, men of moral courage. We need have no fear of being ridiculed. On every hand the people are advancing. The men of science—exploring the heavens and the earth and the gloomy caverns, peopled with the demons of the past— are the angels of today. Science digs a clod from the earth and makes it into some great giant that turns with tireless arms the countless wheels of toil. —Col. R. G. Ingersoll,