Is the Bible Indictable?
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Is the Bible Indictable?
Is the Bible Indictable? by Annie Besant is an essay that examines whether the Bible could be regarded as obscene literature under the broad criteria used by the Lord Chief Justice at the time. In this work, Besant, a major figure in the Theosophical Society and an advocate for social reform, applies her critical and analytical skills to the Bible, giving a thought-produce perspective on its content.
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Annie Besant
Besant was prosecuted in 1877 with Charles Bradlaugh for republishing a pamphlet on contraception, lost custody of her daughter because a court held her atheism made her unfit, and helped organise the match girls’ strike in 1888. Then in 1889 she reviewed The Secret Doctrine,…
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