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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
«The inspired Bible has been and is the greatest curse of Christendom, and will so remain as long as it is held to be inspired»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
as it is, Christendom, curse, held, inspired
«The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
absurd, bliss, dependence, everlasting, Ignorance is bliss, insanity, merits, mixture, mixtures, notion, observation, refutation, refutations, relieved, relieving, rewarded, unhappy
«I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast»
«This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves»
«If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
criminal, follow, insane, New Man, Old Testament, strictly, teachings, testament, testaments, The Criminals, The New
«Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Civilization,
Mankind
| Keywords:
faculties, gotten, improvisation, invention, perception, so-called, The So, uses
«It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
conceive, conceive of, detestable, Hebrew, utterly
«If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce»
«Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Reading,
Thinking
| Keywords:
amazed, atrocities, atrocity, author, bandage, bandaged, bandages, cowled, Holy Bible, holy book, phantom, purity, push, reverence, superstition, The Author, The Holy Bible, The Phantom, The Phantom of, throne