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...grinding gained him his necessary bread; no more. When his writings attracted attention, he declined offers of aid, indifferent to whether men called him "this famous atheist" or "the God-intoxicated man." After he died, "people talked of Spinoza as if he were a dead dog.'' But lenses found in his cabinet paid all his mortuary expenses...
...Atheist Editor Ernest V. Sterry of the Christian Enquirer went to jail at Toronto last week, as he expected he would do when he called God "an irate old party," "this touchy Jehovah"; snorted at His preference "for roast cutlet to that of boiled cabbage" (competitive sacrifices of Abel and Cain), "His whims, freaks and fancies," "His frenzied, megalomaniac boastings." This constitutes blasphemous, indecent and profane libel against the Christian religion and the Bible, said Crown Attorney (prosecutor) E. J. Murphy of Toronto, at last week's preliminary trial. He would not have been so provoked if Editor Sterry...
Thus wrote recently, in Toronto one Ernest V. Steiry, editor of newly established atheist weekly Christian Inquirer. Last week he was arrested, charged with "blasphemous, indecent and profane libel of and concerning the holy scriptures and the Christian religion." In vain he pleaded: "I was not writing of the Christian God but the God' of the Jews...
...Jailed, Atheist Sterry, a short, mild, slim man, was able to turn $1,000 bail within a few hours, was thereupon released. Blinking diffidently at newsgatherers he said a toneless voice...
Straightway the Rationist (Atheist) Society of Canada, Inc. announced that its entire resources would be expended, if neceessary, on the defense of Mr. Sterry. Only twice in Canadian history has a blasphemy charge of this nature been upheld...