| Bible Morality (6444 words) |
 | Among the general principles taught in the Bible and expounded by orthodoxy in this country is that belief, not conduct, is the foundation of virtue, and that uncharitableness towards opponents is justifiable. |
| But Bible morality strikes at the manhood and happiness of man. It stifles our tenderest affections, and urges the exercise of the cruellest passions by teaching that a man may kill the wife of his bosom if she dare to entice him secretly from his God (Deut. |
| It is this peculiar nature of Bible teachings which was, probably, the cause of the early Christians lying for the glory of the Church (see Mosheim's "Ecclesiastical History"), and of Christians at a more modern period robbing and murdering those whom they termed heretics. |
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