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anonymous writing's in blind faith as being- the production of particular 

 individuals, without corroborative evidence, is the act of a fool, not of 

 a wise man. A sensible person will make some enquiry about them 

 before accepting them. 



Unfortunately for ourselves it is only lately that people have been 

 wise or bold enough to use their reasoning- faculties in these matters, 

 the consequence being- that the ordinary mind is now almost unequal 

 to the task of unravelling- the net which has been so cunningly spun 

 around society by the Christian church. A careful investigation of the 

 matter, however, leads to the inference that about B.C. 250 or 300 the 

 Jewish chief priest Ezra, assisted by a number of clerks, commenced to 

 form a national history out of the various legends they had picked up 

 in their long wanderings, soon producing what are now known as the 

 books of Judges (from the 3rd chap.), Samuel, Kings and Chronicles, 

 which, tog-ether with the poems and incantations of various men of the 

 tribes, they set forth as the divinely inspired history of their people. 

 Not long afterwards the Persian system of creation, and story of the 

 full of man were committed to manuscript, and adapted to the require- 

 ments of the Jewish people by the substitution of their race in place of 

 the Chaldeans as the chosen people of god ; and thus were produced 

 the books of the Pentateuch, with Joshua, and the two first chapters of 

 Judges. This explains why the stories of the creation, fall, flood, tower 

 of Babel, etc., are never mentioned in any of the books of the Bible 

 after Genesis for the space of about a thousand years ; why in all the 

 books from Joshua as far as II. Kings the name of Moses is never met 

 with, the most remarkable man in the whole Jewish history ; and why 

 such names as Adam, Eve, Seth, Cain, Abel, Enoch, Noah, Shem, Ham, 

 Japhet, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob never occur again after Genesis till 

 the time of the so-called return from Babylon. 



The real meaning of the Chaldean and Jewish stories of the creation 

 and fall, which were derived originally from the constellations above, it 

 would take too long here to unfold, but the riddle has been explained 

 in my " Popular Faith Unveiled," to which those who desire to further 

 pursue the subject are referred. 



For nearly two thousand years Christianity, based on these fables of 

 the creation and fall, has had an unfettered career throughout Europe, 

 its avowed object being to bring salvation to men in the next world, 



