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Getting Its History Wrong Is Part Of Being A Nation.

It Is Evident, Indeed, That Such A Doctrine, Taken By Itself In A Literal Manner, Had No Future. The World, In Continuing To Exist, Caused It To Crumble. One Generation Of Man At The Most Was The Limit Of Its Endurance. The Faith Of The First Christian Generation Is Intelligible, But The Faith Of The Second Generation Is No Longer So. After The Death Of John, Or Of The Last Survivor, Whoever He Might Be, Of The Group Which Had Seen The Master, The Word Of Jesus Was Convicted Of Falsehood.

The Virtue Of Man Is, In A Word, The Great Proof Of God.

Sometimes They Reasoned Thus: "the Messiah Ought To Do Such A Thing, Now Jesus Is The Messiah, Therefore Jesus Has Done Such A Thing." At Other Times, By An Inverse Process, It Was Said: "such A Thing Has Happened To Jesus; Now Jesus Is The Messiah; Therefore Such A Thing Was To Happen To The Messiah."

Human Cruelty Took The Form Of A Pact With The Deity. A Solemn Oath Was Made To Kill Everything, In Which People Forbade Themselves Any Display Of Reason Or Compassion. A City Or A Land Was Devoted To Destruction And It Was Believed An Insult To God If One Did Not Observe The Abominable Oath.