The Great Infidels

Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
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Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 167484669X

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The Great Infidels (A Lecture) was written by American writer, orator, and proponent of Freethought and agnosticism, Robert Green Ingersoll, and originally published in 1881. The work is a lecture composed from his notes posthumously, on the topic of the 'infidel' or 'iconoclast' versus the church. Those he considers infidels are the Roman emperor Julian, Giordano Bruno, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Thomas Paine, David Hume and Baruch Spinoza. Ingersoll argues that the infidels provide far more to the benefit of humanity than any church or priest. Secondly, Ingersoll argues that the priests are so desperate to cover over the faults of their creeds that they lie about the deaths of their most effective critics, fabricating deathbed horror scenes and repentances that never happened. Ingersoll argues that religion, particularly the christian religion, is based upon fear and propagates by spreading fear. He also argues that priests are really mostly after getting and retaining power, using the lowest means to do so.

Author : Andrew Wheatcroft
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812972399

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Infidels by Andrew Wheatcroft Pdf

Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam. In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main zones of conflict: Spain, from which the descendants of the Moors were eventually expelled; the Middle East, where Crusaders and Muslims clashed for years; and the Balkans, where distant memories spurred atrocities even into the twentieth century. Throughout, Wheatcroft delves beneath stereotypes, looking incisively at how images, ideas, language, and technology (from the printing press to the Internet), as well as politics, religion, and conquest, have allowed each side to demonize the other, revive old grievances, and fuel across centuries a seemingly unquenchable enmity. Finally, Wheatcroft tells how this fraught history led to our present maelstrom. We cannot, he argues, come to terms with today’s perplexing animosities without confronting this dark past.

Author : Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743289696

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Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Pdf

In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie Submission. Infidel is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family and extended clan, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries largely ruled by despots. In her early twenties, she escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Even though she is under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan -- she refuses to be silenced. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant.

Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1333981473

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Excerpt from The Great Infidels: A Lecture We have passed midnight in the great struggle between Fact and Faith, between Science and Superstition. The brand of intellectual inferiority is now upon the orthodox brain. There is nothing grander than to rescue from the leprosy of slander the reputation of a good and generous man. Noth ing can be nearer just than to benefit our benefactors. 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.

Author : Thomas S. Vernon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0943099056

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"The men and women who appear in this book were infidels in the sense that their religious views did not agree with the requirements of the orthodox religion dominating their respective societies."--Jacket.

Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1355980526

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The Great Infidels by Robert Green Ingersoll Pdf

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Author : Eric R. Schlereth
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208252

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An Age of Infidels by Eric R. Schlereth Pdf

Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing so, he casts new light on the ways Americans reconciled their varied religious beliefs with political change at a formative moment in the nation's cultural life. After the American Revolution, citizens of the new nation felt no guarantee that they would avoid the mire of religious and political conflict that had gripped much of Europe for three centuries. Debates thus erupted in the new United States about how or even if long-standing religious beliefs, institutions, and traditions could be accommodated within a new republican political order that encouraged suspicion of inherited traditions. Public life in the period included contentious arguments over the best way to ensure a compatible relationship between diverse religious beliefs and the nation's recent political developments. In the process, religion and politics in the early United States were remade to fit each other. From the 1770s onward, Americans created a political rather than legal boundary between acceptable and unacceptable religious expression, one defined in reference to infidelity. Conflicts occurred most commonly between deists and their opponents who perceived deists' anti-Christian opinions as increasingly influential in American culture and politics. Exploring these controversies, Schlereth explains how Americans navigated questions of religious truth and difference in an age of emerging religious liberty.

Author : Abdellah Taïa
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609806811

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Infidels by Abdellah Taïa Pdf

Set in Salé, Morocco—the hometown Abdellah Taïa fled but to which he returns again and again in his acclaimed fiction and films—Infidels follows the life of Jallal, the son of a prostitute witch doctor—"a woman who knew men, humanity, better than anyone. In sex. Beyond sex." As a ten-year-old sidekick to his mother, Jallal spits in the face of her enemies both real and imagined. The cast of characters that rush into their lives are unforgettable for their dreams of love and belonging that unravel in turn. Built as a series of monologues that are emotionally relentless—a mix of confession, heart's murmuring, and shouting match—the book follows Jallal out of boyhood on the path to Jihad. It's a path that surprises even him.

Author : ROBERT GREEN. INGERSOLL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033308889

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GREAT INFIDELS by ROBERT GREEN. INGERSOLL Pdf

Author : William F. Jamieson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bible
ISBN : MINN:319510019943448

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The Great Infidel Discussion by William F. Jamieson Pdf

Author : Osman of Timisoara
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520383395

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Prisoner of the Infidels by Osman of Timisoara Pdf

Introduction: on being Osman -- Discovering Osman: a short history of the text -- A note on translation -- A note on transcription from Ottoman Turkish -- Surrender -- Ransom -- Crime and punishment -- Death and resurrection -- Respite -- Bonds of love -- To the capital -- A friend in need -- An unexpected turn of events -- Trouble on the Danube -- Grifters -- Border run -- The end -- Appendix: main characters in Osman's narrative.

Author : Dennis C. Rasmussen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691192284

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The Infidel and the Professor by Dennis C. Rasmussen Pdf

Dearest friends -- The cheerful skeptic (1711-1749) -- Encountering Hume (1723-1749) -- A budding friendship (1750-1754) -- The historian and the Kirk (1754-1759) -- Theorizing the moral sentiments (1759) -- Fêted in France (1759-1766) -- Quarrel with a wild philosopher (1766-1767) -- Mortally sick at sea (1767-1775) -- Inquiring into the Wealth of Nations (1776) -- Dialoguing about natural religion (1776) -- A philosopher's death (1776) -- Ten times more abuse (1776-1777) -- Smith's final years in Edinburgh (1777-1790) -- Hume's My Own Life and Smith's Letter from Adam Smith, LL. D. to William Strahan, Esq

Author : David M. Lantigua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108498265

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Infidels and Empires in a New World Order by David M. Lantigua Pdf

Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americas.

Author : David Anderson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449085049

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The Infidels by David Anderson Pdf

Recent events have placed the Middle East and its dominant religion, Islam, at the epicenter of geo political concern.This is a book about the religious origins of the violentclash between Western and Muslim societal values. It places before Muslims, as well as Jews and Christians, questions calling for immediate answers; questions that because of political/religious correctness are not being addressed in the general discourse. It is also a book that maps a road out of this internecine morass.

Author : Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH161M

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Some Mistakes of Moses by Robert Green Ingersoll Pdf