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It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.
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
New York
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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
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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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There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: Let us be friends.
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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.
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There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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