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• If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Use, Agents, Lambs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Discussions”

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• TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY,
  AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Answers, Praying, Harvest

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Men, Forgiving

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• If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.

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  Atheism, Energy, Doe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.

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  Doors, Giving, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

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  Pain, Heaven, Religion

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

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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

  Path, Christianity, Christian Life

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• In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

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  Lying, World, Truth Is

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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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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  People, Doe, Literature

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1951). “Letters”

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• It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

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  Prayer, Spring, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.827, Library of Alexandria

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• Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and suppose that afterward this same God took upon himself flesh, and came to this very chosen people and taught a different religion, and that thereupon the Jews crucified him; I ask you, did he not reap exactly what he had sown? What right would this god have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Law, People

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.437, Library of Alexandria

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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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  Memories, Book, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4158, Library of Alexandria

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• If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

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  Thinking, Giving, Support

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2425, Library of Alexandria

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• No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

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  Ignorance, Simple, Understood

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

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  Eye, Justice For All, Long

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4411, Library of Alexandria

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• The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

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  Bible, Book, Biblical

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Discussions”

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• Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

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  Daughter, Son, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1027, Library of Alexandria

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• It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

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  Ambition, Soul, Eternity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

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• I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

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  Stars, Honesty, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.291, Library of Alexandria

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• Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

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  Men, Different, Certificates

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

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• Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

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  Men, Feet, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.277, Library of Alexandria

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• Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

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  Agency, Light, Waiting

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.322, Library of Alexandria

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• But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

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  Ignorance, Men, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1080, Library of Alexandria

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• The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact.

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  Dream, Ignorance, Light

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• Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.

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  Destiny, Men, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.747, Library of Alexandria

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