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THE DISEASE AND THE CURE
“MAN IS A RELIGIOUS ANIMAL—is incurably religious,” are commonplaces of clerical rhetoric. The priestly “Doctors of Divinity” who unctuously utter these pious—and apocryphal—platitudes—fathered by the wish,—urge the incurable state of mind—the religious neurosis of their patients in proof of the 1 divinely ordered nature of the malady, as patent of the necessity and importance of their “sacred science” of soul-cure, and the divine warrant for their continuance in perpetuity in their practice upon otherwise damned humanity.“ALL TRUTH is safe, and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal, or both.”
MAX MULLER, The Science of Religion, p. 11.“The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.”
Luther Burbank
It is the ghostly Doctors themselves, however, who by their quackeries have created the fiction of the disease, and who purposely keep the patient opiated and on the crutches of Faith, in order to “make their calling and election sure,” and to perpetuate their thralling dominion over the mind and money of man. The first recorded priestly ban—by threat and fear of death—was on Nature's own Golden Specific for superstition and priestcraft,—the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge: “Thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Gen. ii, 17.) A warden with a flaming sword was posted to guard the Tree: sword, and rack, and stake, civil and political outlawry, social and business ostracism and loss of living, odious Odium Theologicum and foul calumny, have ever since been—so far as possible yet are the consecrated weapons of priestcraft to keep mankind ignorant and obedient to the priests. “No beast in nature is so implacable as an offended saint,” is axiomatic of those who prate of loving their enemies. As Jurgen picturesquely says: “The largest lake in Hell is formed by the blood which the followers of the ‘Prince of Peace' have shed in advancing his cause,”—and their selfish own,—as we shall abundantly see in the following pages.
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