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Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, Halt! A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
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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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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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
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The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.
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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 would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
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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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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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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
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If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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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 read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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