Essays on Radicalism

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is tolerent; but as he learns and as his prejudices get stronger he is just as intolerent as the Catholics were at the time of the Spanish inquisition. But he does not try [underlined: by force] and torture to make others believe as he does; he [underlined: knows better] than that.

Let us see what all this has to do with The Bible Story; Eve must have been a Radical and Adam a conservative + she wanted change; he was contented with things as they were. He was probably so contented that he never paid any attention to what he was eating. If Change was ? what Eve wanted she got it. God gave them Fear and shame and they lost [crossed out: all their] [crossed out: money] and had to go to work. the principal difference was that there was no competition in those days. Sons were born to them, and they inherit mental and physical characteristics from both their parents, Cain the strength of his father, with the radical ideas of his mother, Able the

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more iffeminite body with Adam's conservatism. In the first conflict the conservative lost but started the prejudice [crossed out: as] between the two classes. Then Seth was born. Common sense will tell you that he [underlined: must] have mated with his sister. He had no more choice than had Cain when he was driven out of the human family. ??

As God showed himself to man at that time he was a terrible God; apparantly without mercy; and when the strong and ignorant decendants of Cain and the Cave woman are about to overcome the decentants of Seth; God interposes with the flood. But in Noah must have been blood from both sides, because in his sons both temperments are noticable; But it was modified by that experience. They had learned how to build. That is the way God teaches - God's school is the school of experience. The next lesson was the Town of Babel. They knew

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now how to build and wanted to get back what they had lost; The Bible does not go into detail here, but it is the logical start of the prejudices between the different races - that are being fought out now on the battle fields of Europe; Each one [crossed out: blaming] placing the blame on some one else then as now.

Then God starts the formation of the Jews. Every trace of the radical was ex pelled without mercy; but secretly God compensated them, He did not make it too hard, and He gave a promise to [underlined: us]. Read the story of Jacob and Esau - the two sons of Isaac. Jacob the conservative - the business man works fourteen years for two wives and six years more for his flocks - Esau goes to the Caananites and helps himself; but Jacob gets the best of the fathers [crossed out: bel] blessing, and the birth right but Isaac says to Esau Gen 27-40 "And by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve they brother

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and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck" Esau the fighting man - the pioneer - the radical has been striving ever seince to break the yoke of Jacob the capitalist from off his neck, but all this time the capitalist - the business man the conservative has not had [underlined: all] the good things of life; all that they can have are the things that money can buy - we have the good things of life that can not be had for gold.

Then God gave Jews the ten commandments, I would like those who do not believe that the Bible is true, to tell our present-day police how to enforce the criminal laws based upon the mosaic code; the best that they can do is to make an effort to catch and punnish those who break the law - but about 95 percent of criminals are more successful than

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the same percentage of honest working men or business men. The end of the criminal who fails is the prison while the end of the latter who fail is the insane asylums and poor farms. But with the Jews those ten commandments with about 600 others were enforced; It took a supernatural force - the Supreme intelligence we call God to enforce them. Those who could not or would not obey were cast out of the Jewish family without mercy - ten whole tribes were lost completely. Those ten commandments violate what we know as the laws of nature; and man would never have tried to live an unnatural life if it had not been forced upon him by a power greater than himself and for, to him, an unknown purpose. Now while God could and did violate the laws of nature in making the Jews; we can not- and the sooner we find it out the better it is for us.