The Criterion for Religions — Page 23
23 of sin ever crosses his mind, then it will have to be posited about all the earlier Prophetsas that they did not truly believe in the crucifixion of Jesus and in Atonement, for, as alleged by the Christians, they crossed all the limits in evildoing; some among them indulged in idol-worship, while some committed unlawful murder and some were guilty of incest with their daughters. Jesus' grandfather David, in particu- lar, was guilty of every evil. In order to satisfy his lust he got an innocent person killed by subterfuge, sent for his wife through procuress, got her drunk and committed adultery with her. He wasted a lot of money on immoral pleasures and throughout his life kept as many as hundred wives, which in itself, ac- cording to the Christians, amounts to adultery. Strangely enough, the Holy Ghost continued to de- scend upon him everyday and the Psalms continued to be revealed rapidly, yet neither the Holy Ghost nor belief in the Atonement of Jesus could prevent him from immoralities and he ultimately died steeped in these vices. What is even more strange is that Atone- ment couldn't even save the maternal and paternal grandmothers of Jesus from illicit sex, though it could not but smear the pristine purity of Jesus' nature, par- ticularly when there were as many as three such grandmothers. Thus one 'revered' maternal grand- mother of Jesus, who in one sense was also his