Watson´s Magazine, May, 1916, Vol. 23 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Watson´s Magazine, May, 1916, Vol. 23 Human nature will never be understood by any human being: it baffles us, even when we try to understand ourselves. Those we know best are continually surprising us by some act of which we thought them incapable, or by some assertion which demolishes our belief in their intelligence. Who would have supposed that a new religion could spring up, in Western New York, base itself upon an absurd fable about golden plates and a new Bible, and then grow to vast power, in spite of contempt, ridicule, and persecution? Beside the 19th century miracle of Mormonism, the man-made creed of Mahomet is an easy-going achievement, for the Arab merchant imposed upon ignorant nomads, while Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon humbugged shrewd, hard-headed, educated Americans. Who could have supposed that Roman Catholicism would survive the Reformation, reconquer Germany, regain the mastery in Great Britain, and hold the balance of power in the United States, while clinging to the ludicrous dogmas which were almost laughed out of court, at the Renaissance? Who could have imagined that the proudest intellects of modern Europe could have been submerged by the impudent impostures of fake miracles, fake relics, fake purgatory, fake transubstantiation, fake indulgences, and fake personation of Jesus Christ? A colossal fraud, a huge anachronism, a standing insult to common sense, is popery, is the worship of Mary, is the purgatorial gold-mine, is the fiction of saints, is the shameless market in which Rome sells everything, from a nun´s hair to a golden crucifix and a pewter Madonna. But of all the successful impositions forced upon human credulity by the most arrogant of churches, is that of a virgin priesthood. Unmarried, full sexed, ruddy and robust with fat living, red of lip and thick of neck, and dew-lapped of neck, these portly bachelors - thousands of them! - strut up and down the earth, bold-eyed, pretending to sexual purity! And it goes! The brazen fraud is taken for a verity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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