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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Publication date
September 1, 1986
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780879753610
ISBN-10
0879753617
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
Original list price
$24.99
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
About the Holy Bible | Why I Am An Agnostic | Challenging the Bible | Best of Robert Ingersoll | A History of God | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity | Who Wrote the New Testament? | The Great Infidels
About the Holy Bible | Why I Am An Agnostic | Challenging the Bible | Best of Robert Ingersoll | A History of God | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity | Who Wrote the New Testament? | The Great Infidels
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-99), the "Great Agnostic," was the greatest freethought orator in the history of the United States. No public speaker before or since has enjoyed the reputation accorded him.
After the Civil War, Ingersoll embarked upon a career as a lecturer, touring the United States to make his thoughts on religion, women's rights, and humanism known to all. Some Mistakes of Moses, one of the most popular of these lectures, is a critical examination of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible). Ingersoll passionately believed that the alleged divine origins of the Bible were not sufficient reason for a suspension of critical judgement. His diatribe against Old Testament religion is a call for rationality, a quality sorely missing in this time of political upheaval in the world in the name of religion.
Ingersoll greatly feared that when the Bible was read as truth rather than as a collection of fables, mankind would destroy itself in its attempt to follow the teachings of Moses to the letter. Ingersoll fervently believed that the most important belief one can have is belief in man. "Theology is a superstition - Humanity is a religion" - this was the credo of Robert G. Ingersoll.
Now, a new generation of readers can thrill to Ingersoll's brilliant and witty rhetoric, just as great thinkers Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Eugene V. Debs, and others did almost one hundred years ago.
After the Civil War, Ingersoll embarked upon a career as a lecturer, touring the United States to make his thoughts on religion, women's rights, and humanism known to all. Some Mistakes of Moses, one of the most popular of these lectures, is a critical examination of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible). Ingersoll passionately believed that the alleged divine origins of the Bible were not sufficient reason for a suspension of critical judgement. His diatribe against Old Testament religion is a call for rationality, a quality sorely missing in this time of political upheaval in the world in the name of religion.
Ingersoll greatly feared that when the Bible was read as truth rather than as a collection of fables, mankind would destroy itself in its attempt to follow the teachings of Moses to the letter. Ingersoll fervently believed that the most important belief one can have is belief in man. "Theology is a superstition - Humanity is a religion" - this was the credo of Robert G. Ingersoll.
Now, a new generation of readers can thrill to Ingersoll's brilliant and witty rhetoric, just as great thinkers Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Eugene V. Debs, and others did almost one hundred years ago.
Editions
Hardcover
from Nuvision Pubns (July 30, 2009)
9781595474995 | details & prices | 134 pages | List price $29.99
About: There was a time when a falsehood, fulminated from the pulpit, smote like a sword; but, the supply having greatly exceeded the demand, clerical misrepresentation has at last become almost an innocent amusement.
About: There was a time when a falsehood, fulminated from the pulpit, smote like a sword; but, the supply having greatly exceeded the demand, clerical misrepresentation has at last become almost an innocent amusement.
from Bibliolife (May 30, 2009)
9781110307944 | details & prices | 282 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.29 lbs | List price $30.99
About: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
About: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
Paperback
from Cosimo Inc (November 30, 2009)
9781605209074 | details & prices | 272 pages | List price $16.99
This edition also contains Some Mistakes of Moses
This edition also contains Some Mistakes of Moses
from Bibliolife (May 30, 2009)
9781110307913 | details & prices | 282 pages | List price $27.75
from Book Tree (March 30, 2007)
9781585090600 | details & prices | 280 pages | List price $22.95
from Kessinger Pub Co (December 31, 2005)
9781425462437 | details & prices | 268 pages | List price $27.95
About: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
About: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Prometheus Books (September 1, 1986)
9780879753610 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $24.99
About: Robert G.
About: Robert G.
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