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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

...eating history and biography as mere records of the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies. This craze no doubt led him to seek for some legend bear... ...ings as of higher authority than those of Moses, but for the action of the Jewish priests, who, to save Jewry from being submerged in the rising flood... ...d the Lion that one greater than himself shall come after him does the old Jewish hope of a Messiah begin to stir again; and as Jesus begins as a disc... ...them as he had often done in the temple, and justified himself both to the Jewish law and to Caesar. And he had physical force at his command to back ... ...ch, like the famous ode to charity, that he would have admired. He is more Jewish than the Jews, more Roman than the Romans, proud both ways, full of ... ... fall into the bottomless pit to burn there to all eternity. And sceptical physicists like Sir William Crookes demonstrate by laboratory experiments t...

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