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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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The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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