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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.

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
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