inous which they may
commit but which may be forgiven by the priesthood, as they have
learned to believe that all things created by the Pope are
infallible, simply because they have been created by the Pope, and
whenever you preach a doctrine that has such effect upon the
inhabitants of any country you will have a set of inhabitants who
will commit crime without hesitation, as they are assured that by
paying a few dollars into the coffers of the priest they can have
their sins pardoned, and whenever you cause a nation to believe this,
you at once have a nation of criminals.

It is, in my estimation, absolutely impossible for an individual who
believes in such a damnable doctrine to become a pure, patriotic
American citizen. Now, this may seem to the reader a very broad
assertion and one that may appear too broad to be substantiated, but
I propose to demonstrate to you that it is only a natural
consequence, and if we fail to make this point clear to the reader's
mind we will not ask them to believe it.

In the first place, we desire to say that the Catholic religion--if
religion it can be termed--is founded upon the rock of superstition.
Every code of their church doctrine teaches that the Pope is
infallible and cannot err, which is absurd, and not only absurd, but
a festering lie, for no man or woman who believes in the teachings of
the Holy Bible can believe in such a doctrine, and whenever a man or
woman does believe in the infallibility of the Pope and believes that
the Pope cannot err, he or she believes that the Pope is superhuman,
and such we know cannot be the case as long as there is life in the
body, as we are all liable to the Adamic sin, as the world at large
was cursed with the Adamic sin in the Garden of Eden.

Now, we want to deal in simple facts and truths that are so simple
that the commonest man of ordinary intelligence can understand.

Now, if the Pope of Rome is infallible, he is immortal, and if every
action of this Pope is pure, then everything that is created by him
must be pure; and if such is the case, I was at one time as pure as
Jesus Christ Himself, as I for thirty years was a Roman Catholic
priest and a creature created by a Roman Catholic Pope. Every man and
woman of very ordinary intelligence knows that neither I nor any
other priest ever was pure; in fact, that man has never lived or died
who could claim infallibility and purity so long as life was left in
his body.

If the doctrine