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| Joaquim Godwin, CLU |
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The doctrine which gives a reason for everything. 11. The sanctity of this
law. 12. By the course of the world.
Surely, after considering what is life and what is religion, we should not
refuse to obey the inclination to follow it, if it comes into our heart; and
it is certain that there is no ground for laughing at those who follow it.
290. Proofs of religion.--Morality, doctrine, miracles, prophecies, types.
SECTION V: JUSTICE AND THE REASON OF EFFECTS
291. In the letter On Injustice can come the ridiculousness of the law that
the elder gets all. "My friend, you were born on this side of the mountain,
it is therefore just that your elder brother gets everything."
"Why do you kill me"?
292. He lives on the other side of the water.
293. "Why do you kill me? What! do you not live on the other side of the
water? If you lived on this side, my friend, I should be an assassin, and it
would be unjust to slay you in this manner. But since you live on the other
side, I am a hero, and it is just."
294. On what shall man found the order of the world which he would govern?
Shall it be on the caprice of each individual? What confusion! Shall it be
on justice? Man is ignorant of it.
Certainly, had he known it, he would not have established this maxim, the
most general of all that obtain among men, that each should follow the
custom of his own country. The glory of true equity would have brought all
nations under subjection, and legislators would not have taken as their
model the fancies and caprice of Persians and Germans instead of this
unchanging justice. We would have seen it set up in all the States on earth
and in all times; whereas we see neither justice nor injustice which does
not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude
reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth. Fundamental laws
change after a few years of possession; right has its epochs; the entry of
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| Joaquim Godwin, CLU |
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:52 pm |
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communion with God, and is entirely estranged from God, but that He has
promised to redeem them; that this doctrine shall always exist on the earth;
that their law has a double signification; that during sixteen hundred years
they have had people, whom they believed prophets, foretelling both the time
and the manner; that four hundred years after they were scattered
everywhere, because Jesus Christ was to be everywhere announced; that Jesus
Christ came in the manner, and at the time foretold; that the Jews have
since been scattered abroad under a curse and, nevertheless, still exist.
619. I see the Christian religion founded upon a preceding religion, and
this is what I find as a fact.
I do not here speak of the miracles of Moses, of Jesus Christ, and of the
Apostles, because they do not at first seem convincing, and because I only
wish here to put in evidence all those foundations of the Christian religion
which are beyond doubt and which cannot be called in question by any person
whatsoever. It is certain that we see in many places of the world a peculiar
people, separated from all other peoples of the world and called the Jewish
people.
I see then a crowd of religions in many parts of the world and in all times;
but their morality cannot please me, nor can their proofs convince me. Thus
I should equally have rejected the religion of Mahomet and of China, of the
ancient Romans and of the Egyptians, for the sole reason that none having
more marks of truth than another, nor anything which should necessarily
persuade me, reason cannot incline to one rather than the |
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