RATIONALIST MEETING.
"The Biblical characters are not and never were persons who actually lived," asserted Mr. Hall Skelton in the course of an address given under the auspices of the Rationalist Association in the Strand Theatre last night. The Biblical characters were, it was contended, personifications of the basic elements that were to be found in much older religions. Through the science of philology had been traced the similarity of the root words and forms of all religions—the basic elements of the sun and ancestor worship of the ancient Phoenicians and Egyptians, handed down and down through the ages, modified by the religions of the Greeks and Romans, and the teachings of Confucius, -but still substantially present in the Christianity of to-day.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 3
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