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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.
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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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
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