Is Christianity a Failure? What Is Christianity? (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Is Christianity a Failure? What Is Christianity? Refined stealing and graft are legalized and taught in all Christian countries, while crude stealing and robbery are penalized. What we call "crime waves, " is simply a slopping over of the refined crime ever present in our dishonest business system. A certain class of people do their stealing according to law and custom, and live "respectably, " in fine homes without doing any useful work with hands or brain, for the society off of which they live, while another class envy them, and in trying to pattern after them, do their stealing illegally and spend most of their time in jail. Legally speaking, the first-named class is honorable and the other class is criminal. Morally speaking both classes are criminal. Few of us are held up or injured by the "crime wave" crowd, while everybody is robbed by the legalized stealing people. Both classes have the get-something-for-nothing idea strong. In fact, we all have this demoralizing idea more or less, and we need a religion that will educate us away from it. Most everyone desires and hopes for an inheritance, a lucky number in a raffle or lottery, the finding of a well filled purse, a "commission" or rake-off on a deal of some kind regardless of whether we intend to render an equivalent or whether we are worthy of it. And our present religion (Christianity) cannot consistently protest, because it teaches the something-for-nothing idea which rests on dishonesty. When we get something for nothing, some one else usually gets nothing for something, which is not fair, for the same reason that stealing is not fair. Humanity needs a reformed church advocating a scientific, practical and universal religion that will teach the individual not to covet something for nothing in this life or the life to come, a church and religion that will broadcast moral intelligence so that we all can have real liberty of both mind and body. 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.