Robert Ingersoll
Robert 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"...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 August 1833
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It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god
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Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men
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That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;
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Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted
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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied
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But if the witnesses are inspired of God then there is no reason for their disagreeing on anything, and if they do disagree it is a demonstration that they were not inspired
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The inspired Bible has been and is the greatest curse of Christendom, and will so remain as long as it is held to be inspired
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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.
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In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings
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The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray
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The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray
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The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory
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A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and succeeded in getting only two men, and not a single woman, decent enough to enter the promised land? (Num
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All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell