Vulgar words in The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic (Page 1)
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Why, we have plenty of those sorts too, and--worse; but the most charming infidelity of the day, a bastard deism in fact, often assumes a different form,--a form, you will be surprised to hear it, which embodies (as many say) the essence of genuine Christianity!
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Mr. Newman sometimes follows closely in Mr. Parker's steps in the exercise of this bastard toleration, this spurious charity; though, in justice, I must say, he does not go his length.
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Our host had provided for our mutual edification an Italian gentleman, with whom he had had some pleasant intercourse on the Continent, (by the way he spoke English uncommonly well,) and now staying with a Roman Catholic in the neighborhood: this gentleman himself, with whom Harrington, by means of his former friend, has knocked up an acquaintance (he is a liberal Catholic of the true British species); our acquaintance, Fellowes, with his love of "insight" and "spiritualism"!
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As I heard all these different versions of so simple a matter, and found that not a few were inclined to each, I could, not help exclaiming, "In truth the Devil is a very clever fellow, and man even a greater blockhead than I had taken him for."