Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green "Bob" Ingersollwas an American lawyer, a Civil War veteran, political leader, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 August 1833
CountryUnited States of America
choices matter belief
Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
religious selfish religion
My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
nature facts priests
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
angel artist atheism
It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
Fear is religion, courage is science.
jesus nice father
The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.
country giving-up father
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred records of their country are but collections of myths and fables.
thinking church atheism
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.
too-much enough ifs
If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
inspirational revenge anger
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
bible atheist teaching
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
courage real writing
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
death acceptance clouds
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
love sad kings
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.