Compiled in San Francisco in 1890, this reference gathers extracts from freethinkers living and dead into an organised case against the church’s teachings. Topic by topic it questions the two creation accounts in Genesis, the age of the universe, prophecy and miracles, with Hume’s argument and a gallery of improbable Bible episodes from the quails in the wilderness to Lot’s wife.
A period document of nineteenth-century American freethought, combative and frankly polemical in its handling of Scripture. Download the free EPUB.