Excerpt from Modern Christianity: A Civilized Heathenism The question which is beginning to agitate the religious world is not whether we shall continue to recite damna tory clauses in our Athanasian Creed, but whether there is any creed whatever that is worth reciting not whether this form of Christianity is preferable to that, but whether all forms of Christianity pretending to come from God through Christ are not gross impositions from beginning to end. N 0 man who reads a newspaper, or listens to a conversation in his common room or at his club, will con sent to place the impending controversy on any narrower basis. Revealed religion is on its trial before the world, not for some trifling blemishes which a little mild corree tion may mend, but for its very life; and if the clergy, its natural defenders, can show no intelligible reason Why it should stand, common-sense, in this country at least, will very speedily decide upon its merits, after a somewhat rough-and-ready fashion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.