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thought scientific progression and the greens and using mistletoe at Christ so crushed him that his body was 44x loud demands of humanity at largo I mas is derived from Druid ORIGIN OF ancient nothing but a bruised pulp PEACE ON- there are Christian individuals of the practices It was their belief that The priest put upon tho dead man classmen and women half awaken- ¬ sylvan might spirits flock to the ever some water from Lourdes and the ed from the drowsey drunken dream greens and remain unnlpped by frost dead man arose and walked of bravely nobly CHRISTIANITY home faith who stand and till a milder season without a scar on him EARTH out for Peace and Goodwill among The observance of Christmas No names nor circumstances aro men Though identified with It still Christ and massas the anniversary- given no references given to persons they have stepped far In advance of According to the Louisville Courier of the birth of Christ is attributed to who witnessed these things and yet their organization These are evolu Journal Is Is Pope AND GOOD WILL TO MEN the Same That Telephorus who died A D 138 so degraded and lying Is the Christian ting Christians or de- Freethinkers in Claimed by Infidels At first It was a month feast like religion that a big English newspapery gree We honor them we Join with and was CHRISTMAS POTPIE FRESH FROM Easter celebrated by the prints rot of that kind and It Is sent r them we hall them as brothers but churches THE OVEN AND STEAMIN Ordinarily I do not like to reprint Eastern in the months of by press dispatch to this country and at the same time wo are not blind to April May HOT much from other papers but in some and The actual date ot reprinted here as truth the fact that they reflect only the cases I think it best to do so Chrlsts birth was unknown In time Even Jesus Christ is reported to liberalizing leavening of their own century The CourierJournal of Louisville Fourth St Cyril of Jerusalem have raised the dead only once Peace upon earth goodwill to brains and not the true spirit of or- ¬ obtained an from Pope Ky ranks as high as any paper In thoI order Jullius Of course If he had done that It men Is an annual proclamation In- ganized Christianity which came into United States and is the most promin I for an investigation to be made as would have been more Important than dulged in by a bashful bragging ele this world not to bring Peace but to the day of Christs No ent paper in the South nativity all the balance of his miracles com ¬ ment of mankind who for 3G4 days in to bring a sword which hilt deep It authentic proof of the exact day could bined The religious orthodoxy of that pa But the first three gospels do tho year are antagonistic to every- has plunged into time heart of the hu- be arrived at but the of Inquiry per has result not mention It and it is found only In thing conducive to Peace and Good man never been questioned raceChristianity John n gospel the genuineness and au Ally of War When therefore a paper of tha willThis the thenticity of which are disputed by element for according As long as Christianity recognizes kind takes a position on a prominent is Peace Easterntupon many Christians who believe the religious matter that Is exactly to its own dictations and not for all Jehovah as a God of war a God of theIagreethas been urged by some and it seems anger same as that maintained by all promi- threeI opposition It Is for Peace one day and punishment a God who vis- not improbable that this date was con firstL nent Infidel propagandists the editor- been In the grave from which In 3G5 and for Holiness one day in its his wrath upon his enemiesas venlently agreed upon because It serv- ial becomes so important that it is Lazarus is said to havo been raised seven Upon all other days it is at long as they pray to him for success ed another purpose Complaints had It is best to reproduce it In full rather than surrounded by high walls so that warat war with Itself disputing de in waras long as popes primates been frequently made many of no merely to upon that body but the owners of the place nouncing denying and hating all op and archbishops side with the pow- comment It the converts to Christianity could not can see It According to the New Tes- posing own ers autocracy The common belief among the mass- forms of Its likenessat of wealth and In their be weaned from indulgence in the old tament there was none present except war with all opposition of thought and conspiracies and bloody aggregations es of Christian people and the one Pagan festival of the Saturnalia By his two sisters and one of them was progress at war with all who do not as long as hey send chaplains upon that Is encouraged by the church is making the date of the Nativity co- the sweetheart of Jesus and would not dom- Christmas had its origin in the approve of its follies ignorance those mighty engines of death nnd de- that incide with the Saturnalia the church have told on him i ination and imperious assumption of struction the modern battleship as Christian religion got rid of this source of trouble thus Nothing is said as to what ever be- ¬ TERMS OF THE BLADE the right to control morals education long as they accompany armies for So far from this being true Christ supplanting the older heathen festival came of Lazarus after his resurrection 1 issue for one year 100 and government at war with nature the purpose of sustaining the courage mas existed before there was any with the newer Christian one The people who live there at Beth In clubs of five NEW subscribers at war even with God Almighty him of Christian brute with a gun in his Christian religion and was simply a any 60 cents each 250 for five now seem neither to know nor to self brute only because of his time of drunkenness and merrymak- BAD CAMPBELLITE PREACHER handa care about the story of Lazarus resur ¬ A religion which has invented an training as long as they thus Iden ing and presentgiving especially of rection though that such a man lived tlfy dolls and candles existed among Terms100 per year In advance everlasting eternal hell for the great themselves with waras long as that The New York Truth Seeker of there seems quite probable foreign subscription 160 mass of humanity which thrives from they thus give It countenance and ret- the heathen and was adopted by the Dec 24 has the following subscribers sent one year They are all I think Mohamme Five New threatening which sways by brutal from denouncing it they may Christian church The for 260- rain Rev Isaac Selby who came toIdans and seemed to regard us as xa can no high or Idea of defy Prince preach The original idea of what Is now II fear have Just their of Peace and this county from Australia a few years gang of fools who had come to see Make all Money Orders Drafts and the meaning of Peace and Goodwill Peace but there Is and can be no called Christmas was the celebration ago as a converted Infldel and an InflIabout a great lie that was told in con- Express Orders payable to the by beginning Such a religion necessarily must con Peace they but reveal their preten the heathen of the of the del smasher Is now In jail In San nection with Gnua Blade Lexington Ky hays their little old rocky flBlue lain all the elements of criminality ions and hypocrisies lengthening of the Francisco Ho was recently sued for town your ad concentrated cruelty a Siren Song The story of the New Testament When you change address and Goodwill divorce by his wife and the other day But Just any old Ho will do for tho rc vise this office giving your old as Cruelty In Christianity As long as they seize of about the birth of Jesus would indi Latent the mind the suit having gone against him he priests to tell to separate from their well as the now address always appear on cate occurred in the warm i These do not the children and darken Its life with a that it arose in his sent and attempted to as money tho fools who aro willing to pres bloody superstition ¬ Then you send your subscription say surface as the Irrestlble outward limit its intelli sassinate Superior Judge Hubbard by listen to them- whether you are a new or old sure of thought freedom and progress gence and thus keep the multitude In shooting him with a pistol His first subscriber compells Its true nature to secrecy and the bondage of ignorance and subject- shot missed and before he could fire BELIEVES IN RELIGION to a subdued inactivity to tho despotism of tyranny and q again

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