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Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
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 few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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Hope is the consolation of the world.
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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.
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In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
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My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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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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The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.
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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
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I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living tears for the dead.
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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud
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All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.
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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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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
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