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God: The Invisible King (Classic Reprint)
God The Invisible King - Classic Reprint Author:H. G. Wells GOD — THE INVISIBLE KING — CHAPTER THE FIRST — THE COSMOGONY OF MODERN RELIGION — § 1 Modern Religion Has no Founder — Perhaps all religions, unless the flaming onset of Mohammedanism be an exception, have dawned imperceptibly upon the world. A little while ago and the thing was not; and then suddenly it has been found in existence, and already in a ... more »state of diffusion. People have begun to hear of the new belief first here and then there. It is interesting, for example, to trace how Christianity drifted into the consciousness of the Roman world. But when a religion has been interrogated it has always had hitherto a tale of beginnings, the name and story of a founder. The renascent religion that is now taking shape, it seems, had no founder; it points to no origins. It is the Truth, its believers declare; it has always been here; it has always been visible
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; Preface v; 1 The Cosmogony of Modern Religion 1; 2 Heresies ; or the Things that God is Not 25; 3 The Likeness op God 55; 4 The Reugion of Atheists 69; 5 The Invisible King 96; 6 Modern Ideas of Sin and Damnation 145; 7 The Idea of a Church 157; The Envoy 171
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