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14 Feby 1813 §.1 Part 5. B +
Church Ch.6.
11 §.1. Abstract
Part 5. Power over
1 Forcibly deceptive process needful the absurdity of the persuasion (2)
2. Thence employment of its of that absurdity in the eyes of the employers
3. declared persuasion of the as the
From the above
view of the deception
process these conclusions
may be
drawn.
From this view of the view thus given of the nature
and power of the forcibly deceptive process the following
conclusions of a nature more or less intimately connected closely applying to
with many it should since be deduced.
1. Declarations of
credence - palpably
false may be produced
on any
subject.
1. By means of this process, on any subject whatsoever
declarations of persuasion declarations to any degree palpably absurd
as well as palpably manifestly false in palpably false as well
as to any degree absurd may be produced.
Accordingly it is by this principle, whether the particular
mode in which it was applied have or have has or has not
been handed down by history, that the in the case of the
several religions the falsity of which is by the religionists
of the religion of Jesus, as well as by non-religionists
in general recognized, the adherence to their several religions
in the case of the immense multitudes that are found adhering
to them must have been produced.
Thius must have
been produced the
general credence
in religions now
acknowledged to be
false.
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