Precisely so. Buddha founded his religion
long before Christ came; and the Roman
bishops were so eager for power, wealth and
the enslavement of the human mind that they
copied partly from the paganism of Rome,
and partly from the religion of Buddha
To beep the people from finding this out,
the Roman pones burnt the books, shut up the
schools, hid the Bible— and killed those who
tried to tell the people of Europe how the
popes had exchanged the simple religion of
Christ for the elaborate impostures of heath
enism.
Christ did not endow any priesthood, or
empower anybody to organize a brokerage
between God and man
Christ left every man face to face with his
Creator, and encouraged the individual pub
lican to pray—•
“Lord be merciful to mo, a sinner i”
Christ never commanded anybody to go to
the middleman, the priest, and to negotiate,
through this broker, a peace between the sin
ner and his Lord. Never!
Glancing over The New World, the Pope’s
Chicago newspaper, I find that Archbishop
James Edward Quigley has been telling the
asidious apes, how they must eat during
“Lent.’’ (This season of fasting is also a
heathen custom, just as their elaborate Easter '
is.)
James Edward Quigley is the pompous,
pot-bellied virgin who threatens us Ameri-
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