All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. 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.
Fear is religion, courage is science. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Fear is religion, courage is science.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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, wi… - Robert Green Ingersoll
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, wi…
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. - Robert Green Ingersoll
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise! - Robert Green Ingersoll
Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. - Robert Green Ingersoll
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his? - Robert Green Ingersoll
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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