Vulgar words in Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) (Page 1)

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Accordingly it is becoming the fashion in clerical circles to avoid those old Pagans, or else to damn them all in a sweeping condemnation.

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Ravens bring a prophet sandwiches, another prophet besieges a tile, an axe swims on the water, a man slays a thousand men in battle with the jawbone of a donkey, an ass speaks, and a whale swallows and vomits a man.

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Reference is made to their "grooms, ostlers, serving men, pimps, and somewhat else which for modesty's sake I shall not mention."

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"Be happy in heaven," he cries, "and if you won't, why, damn you, be happy in hell."

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Fine words may be uttered and popular sentiments may be echoed; but history teaches us that when the leaders of religion talk in this way, they are serving their one great purpose as surely as when they curse and damn the rebellious multitude.

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Mrs. Booth-Tucker reminds us of the gushing lady novelist, who describes her hero as divinely handsome and miraculously clever, but when she opens his mouth, makes him talk like a jackass.

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Yet, shuffle them how you will, any two of them are ready to damn what the third blesses.

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You hear it in the streets, however, when the irascible carman calls on God to damn your eyes for getting in his way.

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