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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
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They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.
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