“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . . . Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under divers names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. We find, in all the religions, 'a God of armies,' a 'jealous God,' an 'avenging God,' a 'destroying God,' a 'God,' who is pleased with carnage, and whom his worshippers consider it a duty to serve. Lambs, bulls, children, men, and women, are sacrificed to him. Zealous servants of this barbarous God think themselves obliged even to offer up themselves as a sacrifice to him. Madmen may everywhere be seen, who, after meditating upon their terrible God, imagine that to please him they must inflict on themselves, the most exquisite torments. The gloomy ideas formed of the deity, far from consoling them, have every where disquieted their minds, and prejudiced follies destructive to happiness.” WarGodHappinessDeathReligionSacrificeBloodAtheismCrimeDivineMurderKillingSelfishJealousGodsFanaticsMeditatingCruelConsolingMonotheismCarnageMassacreSavageDeityPolytheism Author:Baron d'Holbach
“The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals. The Jupiter of the Pagans is a lascivious monster. The Moloch of the Phoenicians is a cannibal. The pure mind of the Christians resolved, in order to appease his fury, to crucify his own son. The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.” ShouldMindChristianReligionOrderAnimalBloodAtheismSonPureDemandMurderJewBreatheMonstersSatisfiedMortalsAppetiteTyrantsSavagesSuspiciousFuryPaganJehovahJupiterCannibalAppeaseCarnageVapourPhoenicians Author:Baron d'Holbach
“Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.” IdeasWarNamesNationsBloodSelfishDiverseSavagesAdoreFuriousThirsty Author:Baron d'Holbach
