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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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 inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood that there is nothing mysterious about them that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
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Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
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They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.
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I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
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Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
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You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
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We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
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Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.
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