Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Race, Religion, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.905, Library of Alexandria

• The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Revenge, Heart, Men

• Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Lying, Hate, Blood

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

• They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him on the subject of the Trinity. They say that God says to me, "Forgive your enemies." I say, "I do;" but he says, "I will damn mine." God should be consistent. If he wants me to forgive my enemies he should forgive his. I am asked to forgive enemies who can hurt me. God is only asked to forgive enemies who cannot hurt him. He certainly ought to be as generous as he asks us to be.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hurt, Men, Forgiving

• 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.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Believe, Ninety Nine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.290, Library of Alexandria

• The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Brother, Jesus

• God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Men, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc”

• The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Perfect, Doctrine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

• Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Creator God, Atheism, Add

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.903, Library of Alexandria

• No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Heaven, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

• The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Heaven, Religion

  "The Great Infidels" by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1881.

• The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Son, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.474, Library of Alexandria

• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Religious, Pain

• Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heaven, Religion, Hell

• My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Two, Religion, Slavery

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2437, Library of Alexandria

• 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.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love You, Practice, Evil

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2122, Library of Alexandria

• Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fire, Orthodoxy, Hell

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.516, Library of Alexandria

• If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, If There Is A God, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.217, Library of Alexandria

• Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Children, Pain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.216, Library of Alexandria

• 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.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Hate, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

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