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«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»
«He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.»
«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
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