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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
Lecturer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Paraphrased
Slavery
Ignorance
Worst
Form

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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
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I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts... I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.
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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
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And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil pray for those that despitefully use you love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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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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