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
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You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
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Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.
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Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.
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Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.
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The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.
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No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.
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I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.
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Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.
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All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.
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The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.
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The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved; cursed, not worshipped. A heaven presided over by such a god must be below the meanest hell.