Westbrook, a prominent American freethinker, sets out to strip what he calls sacerdotal secrets from Judaism and Christianity. He attacks the authorship of the Pentateuch, the claims of priesthoods, literal readings of ancient symbolism and the infallibility of the Bible, and argues that Christ is a personification rather than a historical person, a view few historians share.
A document of late nineteenth-century American free thought, for readers interested in the history of religious controversy. Download the free EPUB.