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Joseph McCabe

Born

in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, The United Kingdom

November 12, 1867

Died

January 10, 1955

Genre

History, Nonfiction

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Joseph McCabe was born in Cheshire, England, on November 12, 1867 to Catholic parents. His father, William McCabe, was born in Ireland and had inherited the faith. He fled famine and poverty in Ireland and wound up in the Lancaster slums of England. Joseph's mother, Harriet Kirk, was English and converted to Catholicism when she married William. Harriet named her second son Joseph, hoping he would follow his namesake's lead and enter the church.

The McCabe children attended the local Catholic schools where Joseph attained the stature of a model pupil and a zealous believer. (The details of McCabe's early life are in his autobiography and literary classic, Eighty Years a Rebel, published by E. Haldeman-Julius.) At the age of 16 (1883) McCabe ...more

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	Breve Historia del Satanismo by Joseph McCabe, Albert Fuentes (Translator) 3.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2007 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	مدنية المسلمين في اسبانيا by Joseph McCabe, محمد تقي الدين الهلالي (ترجمة) 3.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1935 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of the Resurrection and Other Essays 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Talleyrand, a Biographical Study 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Christianity Grew Out of Paganism: The Real Origin of the Christian Religion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forgery of the Old Testament and Other Essays 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Horrors Of The Inquisition 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War and the Churches really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Candid History of the Jesuits 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Existence Of God really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1934	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.”
― Joseph McCabe, The Existence Of God

tags: advance, humor, interpreters, nature, retreat, rival, science, science-and-religion, science-vs-religion, scientist, theist

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“A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.”
― Joseph McCabe, The Existence Of God

tags: act, facts, formula, law-of-nature, laws-of-nature, legislator, nature, summary

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“The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth — Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.”
― Joseph McCabe, The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels

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