Christian Educator and God's Defender from Great Bend, Kansas • 1

THE CHRISTIAN EDUCATOR A Growing Church 84 Members 5000 Renders Donated by the Oh urea of Humanity to 000 Editors of Religious publications; 750 Clergymen; I'M American. Millionaires; iOO American Colleges and Universities. AND GOD'S DEFENDER. in 82 States W. H.

KERR, Editor and Publisher Devoted to Teaching the Dhieovery that God i myth life Sauta Clans and to Founding the Church of Hoaaanlty. Vol. 2 No. 5 Whole No. 17 Great Bend, Kansas, April, 1905, influence the Church of Humanity will have on Christians as object lessons cannot be exaggerated.

The importance of all who have learned the truths this church teach uniting with it is easily recognized, and they should one and all accept our sincere invitation to unite with it in fellowship, friendship and membership. Same Old Trick, When the state su pports idolatry, idolatry is expected to support the should join the Church of Humanity at once and help it to push- the campaign of education to the utmost. Our liberties, property and, perhaps, our lives would, be at stake if this educational work is not well advauced before conditions become favorable for a religious military crusade here. T5he Church of Humanity. The Church of Humanity demonstrates by a visible, tangible object lesson, the falsity of many theological assertions, teachings and theories, chief among which are: 1.

That a negative cannot be proven that no one can find out there is no God. The Church of Humanity has discovered the great scientific truths that God, Satan and Holy Ghost are fabulous beings, that heaven and hell are myths and that there is no resurrection of the dead. 2. That were it possible to discover there is no hell and no God to make one, the people are not strong enough morally to stand such truths. That they would retrograde rapidly into anarchy and barbarism, take a delight iu robbery, murder and suicide.

The 82 members of the church who have learned these facts do no such things, and by their contiuned good conduct prove all fears and theories of the clergy absolutely groundless. They are going ahead with the duties of life with as much energy, happiness and comfort as are their Christian neighbors. They are as good children, wives, husbands, fathers, neighbors and citizens as are their Christian neighbors and as they were themselves when they were Christians. 3. That people could not die peacefully withqut a belief in the existence of a God and immortality.

The members of this church who h' ve died knew to their last conscious moment that God is a myth and that life is extinguished forever at death, yet they died as peacefully as could any Christian. When false theories have been taught for ages people come to believe them so thoroughly that nothing but a practical demonstration can convince them of their erroneousness. The Church of Humanity comes upon the stage of action to prove by a practical objective proof that all can that those clerical theories and teachings are absolutely false without a single exception. Many of our church members doubt Wouldn't Trust Their Idol. The Catholic church at Paola, Kansas, was struck by ligKning April 10, being the sixth time since it was erected in 1895.

The los3 was but was fully insured. If those people would build a house and giva it to a neighbor they would not in state in time of need. "High Russian churchmen issued a manifesto callinsfon the members to protect Russia as the sacred home of ChrisU Some of the Russian, newspapers fear the result will be an incitement to the ignorant peasants to begin a war of extermination against the entire educated class. M. Onersbkoyski, the famous Russian author, declares that to call on the faithful to fight with the cross to the last drop of their blood for" the salvation of Russia as the home of Christ and to cut off the rotten branch is nothing short of a tocsin for a religious uprising, an appeal to the fanactical and the most uncon-trolable of human passions.

'The fire once started' he says would produce a world of historic conflagrations, which neither the government nor the intellectuals can stop." All this shows the danger to sure it against his burning it down intentionally. If he did they certainly would never build him another house. But the poor dupes think that God burned down the house they sacrificed so much to build him yet they will endeavor to replace it with a better one in hopes of pleasing their idol next time. "What fools these mortals be." less believed when they were' Christians, as do most all Christians now, U5r. trose raise tneories as 10 mar motives ior aoing gooa any government in harboring and It Don't Scare Us a Bit.

and being good were true. They now know they were, mistad the worship of an idol, tfiSEr -nicy liavcieameu1 Ulat c5ba: i a mytii ilite ignoi ani" people who have noT A little stamp with a red border, that life is extinguished forever at death, yet they have no reasons 1 homds of theinown worth fighting to-be foolish and wicked enough to commit any of the crimes and for, lean be changed into fighting i i vices they had thought they would do if free from the fear of God. appeal to save a idol who. in this aetnems oy an home) for their perhaps suggestive of flames, was sent me by a friend with the following quotation on it: "The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God." Ps. 9:17.

My friend should have sent this quotation to some fellow idolator. It is waste of postage to send it to a parson who has learned the discovery that the "God" and "hell" referred to ar myths No. On second thought it is best to send ah such nonsense to those who have learned the facts. Ib will do them no harm, while it might scare those who have not learned these facts, dreadfully. Good News, The administrator of Brother Long's estate, Mr.

Thos. H. Wilson, informs me there is between $2500 and $2800 left by will to the Church of Humanity, which will be available in S3ptember or October. Now that will make us a tine nucleus for an endowment fund, to insure our continuance in this educational work. This is a practical object lesson in the ne They find that reasons and motives for their being good citizens stil remain and have not been impaired in the least by the discovery that God is a myth and that death ends all.

They find the real reasons for being good citizens after all is not a desire to please a God or to escape a hell, but it is becaust they have no desire to do wrong knowingly. They simply have no more desire to rob, murder or commit suicide than they have to chop off one of their fingers. Those Christians who still may refuse to learn the truth about God through fear they will be unable to restrain their wicked natures when the fear of a savage God is removed, should reflect that they would not wish relatives, friends and neighbors to know they are criminals. They would not desire their freedom and liberty taken from them by being shut up in jail or a penitentiary. They would not desire to quit this beautiful world at the end of a rope or in an electric chair.

So you Christians need have no fears you will be short of motives for being good even though God and hell are both eliminated from the list. The Church of Humanity is just the kind of a society that is badly needed to demonstrate by actual examples all Christians can see, that people can live and die in the knowledge that God is a myth, and that this life is all the conscious existence we have, and that such knowledge does not make bad citizens. Therefore, there should be, and must be as fast as possible, church members secured in every neighborhood as living and dying object lessons to the Christians that people can live and be good citizens and die peacefully in the knowledge this church teaches. Nothing else can, or will, ever convince idolators that a true knowledge of their idol is not detrimental to a good, happy, prosperous life and a peaceful ending of it. The clergy will not dare to tell the people to their face it is pitch dark when they -can see the noon-day sun at the same time.

They will not dare tell the people they would take a delight in all crimes and vices and retrograde into savagery were it not for their fear of God when they can point to our church members all around them as perpetual proof that the clergy are mistaken. They will not dare tell them of the horrible death-bed scenes of remorse, fear and despair of those who have learned God is a myth, and death ends all when they have seen with their own eyes our church members die serenely, peacefully, calmly. So the good, moral and educational case, was a poor, ignorant fanatical Jew who has been dead nearly two thousand years and, therefore, needs no home. When they are once fired with religious fanatical zeal they will not stop with the slaughter of Invading enemies of Christ, as their priests represents the Japanese to be, but will turn their swords on the educated class in their own country who know that Jesus was no God nor the son of one and therefore ret use to worship him. Thus the nations have been kept down to a level with the ignorant classes in re-regard to the knowledge of God through the slaughter or intimidation of the "intellectuals." This emphasizes the great necessity of forestalling religious massacres by teaching the people the facts about their idol in times of peace when the reasoning faculties are allowed greater freedom and isolated fanatics, who would murder a brother for not worshiping Jesus, are held in check by their more conservative neighbors.

This is the correct psychological time to teach the christians in the United States the great scientific discoveries that God, Satan and Holy Ghost are fabulous beings, heaven and hell are mytis and life is extinguished at death. To do this now will save thi people from religious wars and massacres forever in this country. This work is of such vast far reaching importance that all the "intellectuals" in this country cessity of organization on our part. Without it there is no one to accept the donation of the living or the bequests of the dying to be used as they desire it to be That is the reason unbelievers in Christianity like Mr. Carnegie gives his millions to the christian organizations.

When we organize and get in a position to use money properly in our educational work it will be given us, and not before. We cannot organize without members, therefore all anti-christian papars should help to get their readers to join the Church of Humanity. ft.