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    Tyranny of God
    Tyranny of God
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    Tyranny of God

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    Tyranny of God
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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 josephdrev@gmail.com.

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      Although the author has clearly been influenced by Robert Ingersoll, he is unable to muster the smooth prose, and the book plods along in a rather turgid manner.

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    Tyranny of God - Joseph Lewis

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    Title: Tyranny of God

    Author: Joseph Lewis

    Release Date: January 9, 2010 [EBook #30900]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TYRANNY OF GOD ***

    Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Odessa Paige Turner

    and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

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    THE TYRANNY

    of GOD

    By

    JOSEPH LEWIS

    The new and daring book on the Philosophy of Atheism

    CLARENCE DARROW

    eminent lawyer, noted philosopher, and humanitarian, says:

    Your book, 'The Tyranny of God,' is well done. It is a very clear statement of the question, bold and true beyond dispute. I am glad that you wrote it. It is as plain as the multiplication table, which doesn't mean that everyone will believe it. I thank you for writing it. I wish I were the author.

    A special edition of The Tyranny of God, consists of two hundred and fifty copies, printed on Utopian paper, bound in limp leather, gilt top, stamped in gold. Each copy is autographed and numbered by the author.

    Second edition, May, 1921

    Third edition, April, 1922

    Fourth edition, January, 1928

    Fifth edition, April, 1930

    Sixth edition, October, 1939

    Seventh edition, November, 1943

    THE TYRANNY OF GOD

    BY

    JOSEPH LEWIS

    THE FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION

    New York

    COPYRIGHTED, 1921, BY FREETHOUGHT PRESS ASSOCIATION

    All Rights Reserved

    PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    Dedicated to

    Fay

    My Dear Wife and Comrade,

    Whose Loyal and

    Devoted Companionship

    Has Made Life Livable.

    Table of Contents.

    FOREWORD

    PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

    PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION

    INTRODUCTION

    THE TYRANNY OF GOD

    I

    II

    III

    IV

    V

    VI

    VII

    VIII

    IX

    X

    XI

    XII

    XIII

    XIV

    XV

    XVI

    EDISON LETTER TO JOSEPH LEWIS

    FOREWORD

    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

    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

    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

    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

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