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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

A Vulgar Falsifier

A Vulgar Falsifier,

and let him alone.

Strange, that nearly every man that has answered me, has answered me mostly on the same side. Strange that nearly every man that thought himself called on to defend the Bible was one who did not believe in it himself. Isn't it strange? They are like some suspected people, always anxious to show their marriage certificate. They want, at least, to convince the world that they are not as bad as I am.

Now, I want to read you just one or two things, and then I am going to let you go. I want to see if I have said such awful things, and whether I have got any scripture to stand by me. I will only read two or three verses. Does the bible teach man to enslave his brother? If it does, it is not the word of God, unless God is a slaveholder.

Col. Ingersoll here read the following extract from the Old Testament:

"Moreover, all children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy of their families which are with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your possession. Ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them. They shall be your bondsmen for ever."

Upon the limbs of unborn babes this fiendish God puts the chains of slavery. I hate him.

"Both thy bondmen and bondwomen shall he of the heathen around about thee, and them shall ye buy, bondmen and bondwomen."

Now let us see how they believed in the rights of children:

"If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them, then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city and unto the gate of his place, and they shall say unto the elders of his city, "This, our son, is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard." And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, so that he die. So shalt thou put away evil."

That is a very good way to raise children. Here is