A man puts himself down, nobody else can, if he be right. Principles universal, cannot be put down, but peculiar doctrines and pretences can.

The very chief temples of peculiar faith easily change hands by conquest, the spirit of which has been aroused thereby, and the conquered are subject to the mortification of their faith-mutations, while those of true faith are already the same everywhere, not only insuring a brotherhood universal in rational religion, but the safest general position to prevent all the ill consequences of wars provoked. Rational religon does not institute any wars.

Party spirit of peculiar faith, only sees one side of the question, and that its own. Rational religion is the silent messenger of God, unlike peculiar faith, that characterizes mind's perversion. Have religion, then, not peculiar faith, and there can be no necessity for repudiation, and this age will hear no more of peculiar faith doctrines, but will rise from a subordinate to a God-like position, that of the noblest triumph of mind. Thence arises the means of an exalted censorship of society, that will command all the just powers of the mind by the press, &c., what no bible of tradition can impart, an enlightened conscience.

The ignorance and stupidity of peculiar faith, cause hate in the world, that would be united, but for its quagmires that prevent the transition state to rational religion.

The worst argument for the adoption of peculiar faith rests on the example of particular men, instead of universal principles, that recognise reason as paramount and omnipotent. Principles are of God; peculiar faith is of men, and refers to their pretended opinions, as authority for the world! If reason be not always most safely appealed to, in the name of God what else can be honestly?

Romanists and protestants can decide rightly for each other's peculiar position, but they cannot be reconciled on the great principles of religious freedom, as they have not the permanent principles of rational religion.

The God of the universe can meet any draft on his funds, for that reason our reverence for him obliges us to discard the vagaries of peculiar faith.

Mind, that looks to its improvement and duty, can respect no custom, no more than cobwebs that are to be expelled; the moment they become nuisances, they are to be abated.

God's principles cannot possibly clash at all, but the creeds of sectarians forever clash, and their doctrines forever involve difficulties of logic and reason; hence, they seek to avoid reason, and recur to sophistry, affecting faith for credulity.

One sect says that falling from grace is the preservation of its church, while another sect says that this doctrine is demoralizing to churches.

The doctrine of falling from grace can only be purely met by rational religion, to put every man on his merits for his life-time, liable to sin in degree more or less, by temptation; and exempt as his nature is purified by a correct education and action in the correct appreciation of conservative principles, that promote the best possible condition of conscience. This is the only safe and pure doctrine, about falling from grace or having grace. All living beings are liable to sin, in degree.

Shall absolutism still decide the question of peculiar faith despotism over most of the world? Shall the organ of thought, the mind, be held in abeyance to man's notions? Shall religion be dependent on peculiar faith? Shall that be the absolutism of custom, or state power? Shall the existence of Christians, Mahomedans, Jews, pagans, mormons, or Juggernauts, be due to the contingency of citizenship, and the peculiar influences bearing thereon?

Reason is the only proper avenue, through the empire of mind, else men might be pirates and murderers, from the customs of barbarian faith.

pour on us.

Open the door for superstition and its varied peculiar faith, and all their curses can There is no limit, as men's notions and licentiousness dictate. You cannot stop the mormons nor pagans, who only have peculiar faith as you have, by brute force, but by rational measures, that exclude your as well as all theirs. What a sublime power is that of moral force, that bespeaks rational religion and its God. Then be done with peculiar faith, if you are good and rational citizens, and pay no court to any but the legitimate doctrines of monotheism, that demonstrates the sublimest power of the universe. Be wise!

Disrespect for God is engendered by any system of peculiar faith, that affects to impart any of his attributes to any other being. Rational religion claims potency adequate, of omnipotence, the Almighty.

God being self-existent, all others are created, and necessarily inadequate to the government of creation.

Peculiar faith superseding religion, is the most disastrous thing to public morals, as it deranges society.

It is the basest fraud to deprive the world of its inherent rights in religion, by all the false pretences of peculiar faith, that will die the death of the felon of superstition.

Base is any character, to think of the usurpation, much less to execute it.

To whom can the distressed friend apply, in his difficulties of mind about religion?

To the base intriguer, who cannot analyze this momentous subject?

No assassins are to strip off physical rights and inherent equality.

We cannot, as rational beings, permit such serious humbugs as peculiar faiths be imposed on the people, in disgraceful obloquy of mind.

The curses of peculiar faith go into all social and national circles, as we now see that with all the blessed light of civilization that emanates from rational religion, the master spirit over party spirits, how one nation mistreats other nations, seeking to force on them a government analogous to the one it had itself got rid of, such has been the conduct of France to Rome. Peculiar faith is one of the most dangerous enemies to mankind, as it is one of the most reckless bigots of tyranny.

Mind enlightened, not empirically, but by the means that nature demands and reason sanctions, will seek to carry out the noble and upward tendency of free institutions, a mighty conservative power of the world.

There are innumerable systems of superstition and peculiar faith, but only one rational religion.

The way to that is by mind and reason, truth, honesty, fidelity and integrity, not through priestocracy.

The Lord deliver us from sectarians and bigots, who only look to superstition for their motto, and a miserable doctrine for faith, for which they commit themselves in all their iniquities.

All such must end, as man's deeds, as thousands of their predecessors. Man, be wise in time.

How many innumerable and inextricable contradictions do the sects of peculiar faith produce?

It is absolutely important that we should have a system of rational religion, that gave full and ample confidence in its universal powers and virtues.

Where is any such after all the boasts and pretences of peculiar faith, that begets peculiar difficulties?

Have we, the people, any proper system of rational and vital religion that imparts on spontaneous innate faculties, inherent principles, that inspire in the breast of all mankind, having rational minds, true confidence? None at all, for we have only systems of superstition.

The principles of religion, not the doctrines of peculiar faith, are for ever important to live and die by.

But then it is claimed that the christian or some peculiar faith, has the pure and genuine possession of grace. What proper proof can be given the world, that has the best right to ask it? None. It is only mere assertion, without any honorable proof. Why the humbug?

Positively all peculiar faith has sectarianism, and that certainly excludes the main idea of grace, universal love for God, and his people.

Do the advocates love God alone, who is the sole Deity?

Do they love that people, with whom they cannot commune by their articles of faith? The only position then of grace is rational, not peculiar.

Do not libel mind and reason, and then you will not libel God.

All, but the true faith, have many superstitions and contradictions in faith and creeds.

It is the duty of all enlightened free minds to seek that which is entirely free from clashing, as God's principles cannot possibly clash, if they do, assuredly the work is

man's.

To correct the wrong, we must know the right.

Action on principles all the time will effect all right. Action on peculiar doctrines will affect right but effect wrong.

The world absolutely requires what God decreed it, religion, as peculiar faith deranges and ruins all its relations.

The code of mind's ethics will best protect the world. How base the world can be about its peculiar faith.

How puerile, imbecile, yet furious, fanatic superstions, yet call peculiar faith religion!

The virtue of the world is too often forced; its hypocrisy disgusts human nature, its corruption degrades it.

The world is too clearly governed by all the present codes of interest rather than of principles.

Peculiar faith is a non-entity in religion.

All faiths in spirits and ghosts, demons and exorcisms, peculiar endowments of grace, are unreasonable and unworthy rational minds.

There can be no peculiar exclusive form of religion in this world, nor any doctrine peculiar or mystified, beyond God's eternal and universal principles. Any others are absurd, the belief blasphemes God, and condemns itself as the work of priests.

There can be no peculiar god-head, no spirit or holy ghost, that unites any vicegerent to God, and man to the vicegerent.

All such faith is absurd, and betrays the assertors as impugning the rights of mind for degraded purposes.

Any denial of reasonable views without a proper refutation is dishonesty, and can only be the act of a perverted, weak, and ignoble mind.

Any faith that circumscribes God's actions to any one nation and its pretences, making all a peculiar nation, is utterly absurd, and negatives God's attributes of universal omnipresence to a peculiar little god of the world, made by priests' brains if not by their hands.

Any mind professing peculiar faith, must war with other advocates of different faiths and war for the false sovereignty of the world, and therefore shows improper spirit destitute of love to God, who is universal in his attributes throughout the universe.

What can the antagonism of the world full of peculiar faiths avail one soul, knowing their false position?

It takes all the elements of religion, a God-gift to the soul, to save it from the effects of peculiar faith that deceiveth the world, and renders nugatory much that is good.

But what is the condition of the minds that are much perverted, to have the serious difficulties of peculiar faith to contend with? How few can escape? Why, then, should the best of the world use the counterfeit, when they are already in the enjoyment of the genuine at once at the mint?

Any one mortal that dies meriting condign punishment, or penalty for misdeeds, presents a state or condition deplorable, hence a change should be made at once and of progressive improvement.

This can only be done by consent of mind, to be enlightened by truth, and matured by wisdom.

Accursed, then, must be he who misleads, trammels, and perverts the mind of man, whose immortal soul is invaluable and inestimable.

The absurdity of faith made of blind belief, that is only taught as custom taught the teacher, is most culpable, sinful, and degrading.

Any hope that rests in it is imbecile and impotent.

All such must be demoralizing, and in the best proof, an appeal can be made most faithfully as to past and present fruits.

What can the future promise?

History shows us murders and butcheries innumerable to correct heresy, as it was called, by burning, forced conversions by inquisition-generals.

Who shall decide this greatest question?

None but the Almighty Creator.

Who represents him? Mind enlightened.

Peculiar faith is made the means of hiding a multitude of pretences, designs, and sins. The world is wicked enough without all these!

Peculiar faith gives us the mixed plurality of gods.

Nations seek true government, but must have their rights trespassed upon by the usurpations of peculiar faith, worth nothing to the world.

Who wonders now at the thousand deformities of society, when primary wholesale injuries abide in goverment that unites church and state?

Butcheries of the people must be perpetrated to establish the temporal power of the popes, by the worst of political hypocrites.

The crisis of the world's history makes men, who as good and true will unite to secure it from the fangs of superstition and its effects!

They know that high-mindedness, honor above all vulgar prejudices, will elevate the world to its pinnacle.

Peculiar faith generates in all ages, immense vices and crimes, consequently it is the rankest absurdity, when estimated as religion in any age.

Has any form of peculiar faith, that sets out with false pretences to God affecting to be religion, done otherwise than as a virtuous institution, then it was an ignoble superstition, claiming to be what it was not, and being what it should not have been!

In countries even claiming to be free, faith, unless conformable to the existent national peculiar faith, denationalizes the recusant parties, who are ever excluded from national councils, after their election, by being unable to take the oaths required.

In England, the Jews, though elected, could not become legislators for this reason. There is no end to peculiar faith heresies while its several bibles of tradition as of Judaism, Christianity, Bhuddism, Latter Day Saintism or Mormonism, Mahometanism, Brahminism and Paganism give them utterance. Is it necessary to ask which is right, when all rational minds can see them all wrong?

And yet what rights have the citizens, but under the recognised national peculiar faith of those countries so silly and corrupt as to adopt them? If the evil be intolerable, even in England, what must it not be elsewhere?

What country rights have they but by adoption of their abominable creed?

Put down, for God's sake and mind's rights, these the rankest heresies that war on God's creation, and creation's rights. Even proscription of opinion in this Union, the mere reflection of the dying monster, precludes delicate liberty.

Let not this stupid invasion of mind's freedom any longer exist. Enjoy all the genuine exaltation of purest rationality; that is the purest incorruptible liberty.

The one peculiar faith of the slavish government is arrayed against all the rest, while religion holds up all, modern and ancient, polytheism or trinity, as unworthy the countenance of honest minds.

Do you wish to get rid of the errors of Romanism, you must revolutionize Protest

antism.

Relieve the world, in God's name, and by his principles! Let us go with those that go the farthest in religion, no matter whether we rouse absolutism, or the women and children, so we be right. Rational women and children wish to be right; let them now learn it.

The world would have been much further advanced in science, philanthropy and the real greatness of humanity, if there had never been any pretensions to superstition and miscalled religion.

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For whom was the institution of peculiar faith from the first ages of the world to the present time? For the priestocracy, priests and preachers, kings and their minions. The good of the many was not consulted, who were made subordinates to the peculiar faith order. Despotism, not religion, was the purpose of the most ungodly ambition. See their iniquitous enslavements of mind, by all the vices of absolutism. See their iniquitous wars for conquests of soul and body, lands and money, powers and principalities, throughout the world.

The world of peculiar faith is ambitious of rising, right or wrong, on the ruin of others.

This is not a religious but an ambitious spirit. We must be guarded by principles, the only conservative basis. against the impudent pretensions that affect the world.

Peculiar faith can never exalt to the Supreme Creator, as all such has emanated from the savage, vassal, ignorant and barbarian state.

Savages revere the sun, but as far as the Creator exceeds the sun in majesty and brilliancy, so does religion excel peculiar faith, that can be nowhere before the God of the universe.

It is not altogether the fault of new doctrinists of peculiar faith, new sects, as the Mormons, as the ignorance and corruption, the bigotry and superstition of the masses of the people, who ought to have investigated this comprehensive subject, and to have seen that peculiar faith doctrine is not religion, but is the very reverse, and the peculiar curse of mankind. Past ages have been disgraced enough by the wicked heresies of all peculiar faiths.

The pretenders have been enough illiterate, profligate and licentious epicures, loose and vicious, to curse the present also.

Let a Numa institute his god's temples, altars, sacrifices, and rites of worship, declaring idolatry under the care of their priests; let the East Indian build his pagod temples for his worship, with his vedas for his bible, and the tyrannical Brahmins for priests, but let world-freemen, that are intelligent, revere truly and mindfully the only being, the God of nature, who could create, organize and regulate matter by sublime principles, that render his attributes above all, as the great sole First Cause of the existence of things.

And the beauty and strength of this position that triumphs above all others, are, that all God's creation tends to good if appropriately appreciated by mind, whose actions must be correspondent.

But in what horrid position is the world now? Who will rescue it from the snares of peculiar faith?

Various and opposite faiths are mixed up in the same government, and thus the whole world is wofully cut up thereby. It is so in China, Hindostan, Asia, Europe. Where is it not? Its waves after waves, with fiery martial prowess, enslave the fairest portions of the world.

The Brahmins ruled India, then the Bhuddists, producing civil and horrid wars, then the Mahometans govern, and all in turn, submit to the Christians, while in Arabia, &c., the Mahometans rule over Christians and Jews, all producing their peculiar hostility and injuries.

The Pagans of Babylon conquered the Jews, and transplanted them in the east. Did not the Jews learn from the Egyptians and their conquerors, the Babylonians, their peculiar faith?

Other conquerors with diverse faiths, people with them, several cities of Asia and Egypt, and caused them to be diffused widely over the world, where they are not cut off by persecutions of enemies of peculiar faith. In this, the Jews were treated better by the outside barbarians, as they murdered their enemies, and spared neither sex, nor age, nor property!

Who had the most orthodox civilization? All the ancients, Jew and Gentile, possessed only peculiar faith.

Martyrdom, severe as it was itself, was much of a speculation, for proposed ben

efits.

Now toleration, the lovely daughter of civilization of mind, that rebukes all the boasts of Christianity, and all peculiar faith affecting to be the only light of the world, as withholding the noblest blessings of mind, is its universal protection.

Instead of toleration, christianity has given in turn, persecution, inquisition and proscription, peculiar faith for religion.

Toleration is a defence against a world's persecution, that arises against all peculiar faith, its necessary concomitant.

What protection better to conscience, Jew, can be offered you, than the adoption of rational religion?

You have tried thousands of years, your own peculiar faith, and have been the cause of many new ones, no better diffused over the face of the globe.

Your predecessors laid iniquitous foundations, and you have sacrificed deeply on the altar of superstition, and most deeply have you atoned therefor.

Arouse, ye descendants of Joseph, and assert the dignity of character that belongs to mankind, united in one universal brotherhood.

You can never attain peace and happiness on this earth by your faith, that can never reach the dignity of religion.

You can never assert a union with mankind, from whom you have been estranged by the follies and crimes of past ages, but by the eternal principles of the God of the universe, who ruled your peculiar gods.

Consider, remnants, fragments of a nation, so much persecuted for so little profit, after all, your duty and happiness.

No vows of such a faith that is peculiar, will be estimated by the Almighty, for religion.

You may see the errors of other peculiar faiths, but by your education so peculiar, you fail to see your own.

However you esteem yours, its peculiarity will never render you safe with your peculiar god.

The integrity of your mind before all blood offerings of victims, can only be acceptable to the God of the universe.

While all sacrifices are superstition and nonsense, from the blood of animals to that of pretended messiahs and Christs, mind alone atones as mind ought.

It is in your power to interdict your civil and religious death and oppressions. You have sacrificed long enough to the false peculiar faith of your fathers, who were ignorant and fanatie, Forsake their barbarism in the lights and blessings of rational religion.

You are now diffused among most nations, and nearly in all lands.

This you have chosen, that lies between the two mightiest oceans, commanding all continents and their wealthiest commerce. Aid in rendering an example of the most brilliant light to all the nations of the world.

No one of peculiar faith can expect to triumph in this mighty country.

What military chieftain will be fool-hardy enough to try his ambition, when a nobler field of glory awaits mind in its richest rewards?

By the side of this land the ancient republics stand half civilized, as they had not representative constitutional governments, the first principles of freedom.