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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 9
… only the bloodthirsty and futile Jehovah who has achieved such monstrous births. Such upas-trees can only grow in the poisonous mire of fear and shame where thought has putrefied to Christianity. There is thus no antecedent improbability that Gilles de Rais (or any other person of that place and period) was addicted to black magical practices, for they were all Catholics. The power of the Church was, at that time, absolute, and even research was
1930 · PDF PAGE 18
…as to a large extent the victim of Catholic logic. Catholic logic: and the foul wish- phantasms generated of its repressions, and of its fear and ignorance. He wanted to confer to a boon on humanity ; therefore he consorted with the learned ; therefore he murdered little children. I think it is about time that somebody got after J. B. S. Haldane. It is too late to do anything more to Ridley and Latimer, but I am quite sure that the candle they lit was made of infants fat. It is no use your starting to rifle Graves, because his publishers might…
1930 · PDF PAGE 13
…to be bullied, and too good business men to be fooled into killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. So the only motive available was fear, and in those ages where ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a scare about bogies than our propaganda in the recent scrap found it. I was in Venice just before the war, when Halleys comet was around, and although the Pope himself sprinkled holy water over the comet, and sent it his special benediction and told the people it would do no harm, in his most ex cathedra…
1930 · PDF PAGE 12
…ouse to indis- criminate slaughter without reason. In order to get them going, there are only two things which you can play ongreed and fear. The motive behind the Crusades was the story of the fabulous wealth of the East. We find, in fact, that well-organised armies of buccaneers, such as the Templars, did bring back incalculable spoils, while the honest pious mugs ruined themselves in the process.
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…any. But, on the other hand, it is quite impossible for me to dis- prove it. So now, if you want to attack anybody without the slightest fear of contradiction, you know how to set to work.