Unhand Me! a Comment on Religion (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Unhand Me! A Comment on Religion Gladstone said: "The century can be summed up in one phrase - Unhand me!" And in this determined revolt against everything that seems to interfere in any way with the freedom of the individual and his thoughts can be found the explanation of almost all the important developments of our times. The cry which Martin Luther raised in 1517 has been echoing and reechoing until its volume has become a menace to established conservatism. The day of blind following of an unexplained leadership is fast passing. Education and religious liberty have caused men to become suspicious of many so-called "authoritative" truths, and never in the world's history has man been so anxious and eager to know the truth. Of course, the man who does his own thinking may not in every instance think rightly, but he is never so unfit for citizenship as the individual who allows another to do his thinking for him. This slow-moving tide of individualism cannot be stemmed, and self-elected "authorities" should harken to the cry of the times, stop shouting worn-out shibboleths, and begin to teach the blind to see and the deaf to hear. In issuing this book I have no desire to add to the already enormous mass of "orthodox" rubbish which fills our library shelves. It contains a plain, blunt statement of what one individual, in his heart of hearts, really thinks about religion. My study of this subject, I believe, has been thorough and honest. 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.