Project Gutenberg 2015-11-22 Public domain in the USA. 158 Lucas, Jean Maximilien 1697 Arpe, Peter Friedrich 1682 1740 Aymon, Jean 1661 La Monnoye, Bernard de 1641 1728 Monnoye, Bernard de La De La Monnoye, Bernard Monnoie, Bernard de La Rousset de Missy, Jean 1686 1762 De Missy, Jean Rousset Missy, Jean Rousset de Vroese, Jan 34023425 The Three Impostors Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Three Impostors" by Multiple Authors is a philosophical treatise written in the late 17th century, that challenges established religious beliefs and the existence of divine authority. The text explores the notion of three key figures in religion—Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad—and argues that they are impostors who manipulated followers through fear and ignorance, discussion about authority in religion, and an examination of the origins of religious beliefs. The opening portion of the work lays a foundation for a critical examination of human belief systems, suggesting that the popular concept of God and religions arise from fear and the need for explanations regarding the unknown. It suggests that rather than being divinely inspired, religious figures utilized magic, manipulation, and political savvy to sway the masses, exploiting their ignorance. The text questions traditional views of divinity, positing that both the supernatural and the inherent social structures have conspired to maintain a false understanding of spirituality, thereby initiating a profound discourse on the nature of belief, ethics, and societal governance. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Rationalism Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 De tribus impostoribus BL Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 284565 284559 2024-09-21T07:51:58.947253 2023-09-22T05:18:30.503090 text/html text/html 278392 2016-06-13T10:27:52 text/html; charset=us-ascii 154107 2016-06-13T10:28:04 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 167411 2024-09-21T07:52:06.573155 application/epub+zip 174989 2024-09-21T07:52:01.390209 application/epub+zip 167595 2024-09-21T07:52:00.115317 application/epub+zip 289928 2024-09-21T07:52:10.169653 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 253064 2024-09-21T07:52:05.503235 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 228722 2022-09-22T20:38:45.242241 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 190582 190345 2024-09-21T07:51:57.827232 2023-09-22T05:18:29.412077 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 190629 2016-06-13T10:27:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 72010 2016-06-13T10:28:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20290 2024-09-21T07:52:10.337639 application/rdf+xml 19464 2024-09-21T07:52:00.221212 image/jpeg 2789 2024-09-21T07:52:00.167187 image/jpeg 155636 2024-09-21T07:51:58.979191 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog