64 ANDREW J. SHIPMAN MEMORIAL 



Church and State, it adds : ''Separate two authorities equally 

 hateful ! It is imperative to suppress both of them !" 



In the "Compendium of Universal History," written by 

 Mme. Clementine Jacquinet, we find the following gems — on 

 page ^/: "It is believed that Jesus Christ was- a Buddhist 

 monk, who came from Mt. Carmel, and who devoted himself 

 to preaching the religion of Buddha to the Jews." 



On page 40: "Would not God have done better to have 

 begun by making man as he desired him to be? Can you con- 

 ceive of a father communicating to his son a terrible disease 

 for the pleasure of curing it afterwards and then proclaiming 

 himself thereafter as his benefactor ? This God of the Chris- 

 tians is a wicked God, which every honest conscience ought to 

 reject ; or, if not, he is a useless one, powerless to prevent evil 

 or to assure the good which one desires." 



On page 41 : "We desire to observe here that the only act 

 of justice accomplished by this God was to get himself killed 

 as the author of all the evils which men suffer." 



On page 42, speaking of the crucifixion: "What does the 

 deed represent? Why, the part of a low-minded, ambitious 

 person, infatuated with the very idea of his own wisdom." 



On page 46 : "We will always see Christianity, in the course 

 of history, face to face with progress in order to obstruct the 

 latter's path; with a negation of science because it impeaches 

 dogma; supporting firmly absolutism, inequality of the social 

 classes ; as an oppressor of the human conscience in its torture- 

 chamber of false morality, with a hateful flag in whose shadow 

 every crime has been committed, as a vampire always thirsting 

 for blood to whom milHons of victims have been sacrificed !" 



In the work called "Nature and the Social Problem," writ- 

 ten by Enrique Lluria, used in the advanced schools, the 

 preface (page 7) explains the design and tendency of the 

 work: 



"At the end of two generations in which catechism is not 

 taught, and it is scientifically explained that what is called 

 creation is but the uncreated existence of the universe, only 

 the atavistic eflfects of a religious belief will remain. There 

 will be left then only its annihilation, and when its atrophy 

 commences its annihilation will be rapid. For this purpose 

 the Modern School of Barcelona has been founded, its library 

 and free schools created to extend the work." 



