Religion and Civil Liberty: [an essay]

Hilaire BELLOC

Verlag: London: Catholic Truth Society, 1918

Beschreibung

Wrappers. Spine darkened and splitting at foot, staples rusty. From the author's library. The "modern popular sceptic" has "a religion or philosophy as every man must have. He thinks it his bounden duty not only to spread it, but to suppress opposition to it . . . When I was in the House of Commons one of the Professional Politicians whom I found more tolerable than most, argued with me in an undertone on religion while some swindler or other was promoting a Bill for filling his own pockets. This man said to me - being a sincere atheist, and therefore more honest than the run of the place - 'Every religion has its hypnosis.' To which I answered, 'And none more than yours. I will bargain you do not play cards.' Nor did he. If I had gone further I should probably have found him a teetotaller and a vegetarian, and cheerfully ready to prosecute a man for drinking a glass of beer or eating a mutton chop. Yet he thought himself a champion of 'civil liberty' - and a sceptic in morals to boot!". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 32M300030

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Religion and Civil Liberty: [an essay]

Verlag: London: Catholic Truth Society

Erscheinungsdatum: 1918

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition