Vulgar words in History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion (Page 1)
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Among the prejudices about public worship (class 2) in his work, we meet with the charge of ass-worship (in Tertullian and Minucius Felix, ch.
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Among the vulgar prejudices thus named, the only two that need further mention are the charges of priest-worship and ass-worship.
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i. p. 256, &c. But the fact of the charge has been corroborated by the recent discovery in excavations made in some substructions on the Palatine hill, of a _graffito_ or pencil-scratching, in which a person is worshipping toward a cross, on which hangs suspended a human figure with the head of a horse, or perhaps wild ass, and underneath is the inscription "Alexamenus is worshipping God," Αλεξαμενος σεβετε [sic for σεβεται] Θεον.
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Ass, worship of, imputed to Christians, 405.