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Robert G. Ingersoll
September 3, 2008 at 12:24 am
This is my favorite free thinker of all time.His views on religion,politics,reason,and a slew of other issues important to the development of mankind and his reason are nothing short of illuminating.
I will be posting quotes by him often on an array of issues.This is the first.
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
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RE: Robert G. Ingersoll
September 4, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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RE: Robert G. Ingersoll
September 29, 2008 at 3:07 pm
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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RE: Robert G. Ingersoll
April 18, 2009 at 8:00 am
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Personally, it's not God I dislike, it's his fan club I can't stand.
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RE: Robert G. Ingersoll
April 18, 2009 at 9:38 am
Liberty is my religion. Liberty of hand and brain -- of thought and labor, liberty is a word hated by kings -- loathed by popes. It is a word that shatters thrones and altars -- that leaves the crowned without subjects, and the outstretched hand of superstition without alms.
Robert G. Ingersoll
