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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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Dresden
Yates County
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The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.
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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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An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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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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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
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Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.
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To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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