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human individuals living. Now Adam and Eve had 

 two children, Cain and Abel, and Cain slew Abel. 

 This was the first reputed murder. Here comes the 

 funny part of the legend. Cain gets a wife. Where 

 did she come from ? There were only three human 

 beings living, viz., Adam, Eve and Cain Abel being 

 dead. And thus we have the reputed elements of the 

 whole human race. A tale absolutely childish, a tale 

 which fundamentally contradicts itself. How is it 

 possible for the priests to believe in it, with the modern 

 information pressing upon them at every point ? 



And more than this. This deadly sin of Adam, 

 namely, eating an apple, and the consequent curse, a 

 curse which is supposed to alight upon every one, are 

 the excuses for a redemption. If original sin, is false, 

 redemption' is false. Now the whole of the teaching of 

 the true Stone Bible, a bible not made by hands, con- 

 tradicts the legend written by man. It says in the 

 most emphatic way, the legend is not true, and when 

 this is so, to teach this legend as truth, is A WICKED 

 PERNICIOUS LIE. What must we say then of priests 

 who attempt to fossilize the mind within the limits 

 of this grand lie ? a lie which is condemned, i.e. 

 damned. 1 



sessions that such a medley of the sublime religious ideas and lofty 

 poetry of the prophetic ages, with such a mass of puerile and absurd 

 legends, such obvious contradictions, and such a number of passages 

 obviously dating from a later period, should be received by many 

 men of intelligence, even to the present day, as the work of a single 

 contemporary writer, the inspired prophet Moses. " (" Human 

 Origins," S. Laing, 1895, p. 254-256.) 



Still more remarkable is the fact that such nonsense should be the 

 product of University education, and that those holding such 

 ridiculous ideas should demand to teach the rising generation ! 



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