The Tyranny of God
By Joseph Lewis
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Joseph Lewis
Joseph Lewis grew up in a secular household. He discovered the significance of religion at age nineteen, was baptized in a Baptist church at age twenty, and is now thirty and a recently confirmed Catholic. He has earned two associate degrees in intelligence studies and foreign language while actively serving in the United States Air Force. He can be reached at [email protected].
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The Tyranny of God - Joseph Lewis
Joseph Lewis
The Tyranny of God
EAN 8596547315568
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: [email protected]
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
INTRODUCTION
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THE END
EDISON LETTER TO JOSEPH LEWIS
FOREWORD
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Go forth, little book, to destroy fear,
prejudice and superstition, and help to install
Reason in the minds of the human race
to be its guide in the affairs of life and its living.
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
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The most eloquent testimony given this little book is the fact that a second edition is made necessary only a few months after the publication of the first edition.
Favorable comments and letters of recommendation from men and women eminent in literary and scientific realms, and commendatory reviews in periodicals of high standard are, I think, sufficient cause for the belief that The Tyranny of God
forms a necessary cog in the machinery of intellectual thought and progress.
Even those who bitterly oppose the book admit that it possesses the power to make its readers think.
Of the many opposing reviews and adverse criticism of The Tyranny of God,
not a single one offers an argument in answer to it. For the most part, their characterization has been that it is pessimistic.
As if by calling it pessimistic,
they refute its claims!
If to tell a man the true nature of a disease from which he is suffering, with the hope that he will seek a cure for his malady, is pessimism, then I am a pessimist. Is the use of a danger signal at a hazardous crossing, for the purpose of preventing disaster, pessimism?
If to literally hold the mirror up to Nature,
disclosing Nature's utter disregard for the life and feelings of man, as a warning against the extravagant and useless propagating of life, is pessimism, then surely I am a pessimist.
If a fervent desire to help Man, instead of wasting time in prayer to God,
is pessimism, I am a pessimist.
If to think, to investigate, to express one's thoughts courageously in the face of centuries old dogma is pessimism, then I must confess I am a pessimist.
If to expose sham, hypocrisy and fraud; if to open the mind and free it from fear; if to stimulate the intellect, and work for the Here instead of the Hereafter
—if all these are classified as pessimism, then truly may I be called an arch pessimist.
The Tyranny of God
was written to express the truth as I see it—to portray life, not as we would like to have it, but as it actually is.
Millions are still like frightened children, afraid of their own shadows. Fear of the truth is the greatest deterrent to its acceptance.
Joseph Lewis
April 14, 1922
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
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I am indeed gratified to send forth the fourth edition of The Tyranny of God.
I wish, however, to say to the reader that my book deals with life philosophically and not individually. It was from the viewpoint of life in general and the universe as a whole that the sentiments herein were expressed.
To love God is not the duty of man and one of the most important tasks to be accomplished for the human race is to destroy the Theistic conception of Life and the Universe.
The sentiments I expressed at a memorial meeting in honor of Luther Burbank last May best illustrate my convictions. I said:
The religious person loves God so vehemently that he has no love left for Man.
May The Tyranny of God
do much to accomplish the purpose of its author.
Joseph Lewis
January 10, 1928
INTRODUCTION
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Where did we come from?
What are we doing here?
Whither are we going?
These questions have puzzled thinking people since consciousness first dawned in the brain. Many have sought to answer them, so why not I?—with the hope that the reading of this book will arouse in the minds of the readers thoughts that will enable them to answer these questions for themselves.
Were you suddenly to find yourself living on another planet, and you were a thinking being, one anxious for knowledge, you would naturally investigate the conditions under which you found yourself, and seek, if possible, a solution for your existence there. Surely it is equally appropriate, situated as we are on this earth, endowed with brains and possessing senses and nerves, to inquire into and investigate the conditions under which we live, and the purpose, if any, of our existence here.
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