The most minute directions were given as to the killing of these animals. Every priest became a butcher, every synagogue a slaughter-house. Nothing c… - Robert Green Ingersoll

^10. “When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, ^11. “And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife, ^12. “Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails.”^{— Deut. Xxi.} This is barbarism, no matter whether it came from heaven or from hell, from a God or from a devil, from the golden streets of the New Jerusalem or from the very Sodom of perdition. It is barbarism complete and utter.

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.