Fresh Batch #4: Pagan Fooleries & Christianity

The Perspective of a Turkish Spy in Paris

Reverend Taylor wrote from the confines of Oakham Prison, while serving an unjust sentence for blasphemy, of which I cited in my latest book Spirit Whirled (Book VI): Terminalia, “Christianity and Paganism are frankly avowed to have been never more distant from each other than six from half-a-dozen—never to have been at variance or divided, but by the mere accidental substitution of one set of names for the other, and the very trifling and immaterial misunderstanding that the new nomenclature had occasioned.”

Mahmut, A Turkish Spy in Paris, wrote on the 27^th of the 2^nd Moon of the Year 1667, “The Pagan Fooleries were handed down to the Posterity of the Primitive Christians, and were adopted into the Family of Church Traditions: And Men are not more zealous for the Gospel itself, than for these ridiculous Profanations of it: So dangerous a thing is it for Governors, by a criminal Indulgence, to permit their Subjects any Liberty, which interferes with the Fundamental Principles of the Law: For such a Dispensation once granted, passes into a Precedent, which, in Process of Time, becomes of equal Force with the Law itself. And by such preposterous Methods of winning and retraining Converts, Christianity arriv’d to the Height of Corruption ‘tis now infected with.”

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