you mean canaanites? > the priests of egypt, always impostors, but once so celebrated, had now degenerated into a race of jugglers., also the chaldeans lived upon the fame of their fathers, and upon their own base trickeries. the brachmans or brahmins, those priests of india, once so virtuous and so wise-ah! they too had fallen... > those pupils of the egyptian priests, the phoenicians, or canaanites, who had taught the israelites to sacrifice human beings, and to pass their children through the fire to moloch, infused the same bloodthirsty precepts among the druids. as the indian wife was burnt upon her husband's pyre, so, on the corpses of the celtic lords, were consumed their children, their slaves, and their horses. > but worse still, these wicked priests sought through the land for the most beautiful young women, and trained them to dance in the temples, and to entice the devotees to their arms with lustful attitudes and languishing looks, and with their voices which mingled harmoniously with the golden bells suspended on their feet. they sang hymns to the gods in public, and in private enriched the treasuries of the pagoda with their infamous earnings. thus a pure and simple religion was debased by the avarice and lewdness of its priests: till the temples became a den of thieves: till prostitution sat enthroned upon the altars of the gods. > a dark and dangerous heresy has long been creeping silently into the heart of our religion, and converting its ministers into false vipers who, warmed and cherished by the bosom of this gentle church, use their increasing strength in darting black poison through all her veins.
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