Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Atheist
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.
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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
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When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.
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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.
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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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.
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For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
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Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
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