All from Colonel Ingersoll:
"The doctrine of eternal punishment is the infamy of infamies. As I have often said, the man who believes in eternal torment, in the justice of endless pain, is suffering from at least two diseases: petrifaction of the heart and putrefaction of the brain."
"The doctor of theology has lost his power. Theological thunder has lost its lightning; it is nothing now but noise, pleasing those who make it and amusing those who hear."
"The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know."
"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven."
"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."
"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."
I could go on. He's an eminently quotable man.
"The doctrine of eternal punishment is the infamy of infamies. As I have often said, the man who believes in eternal torment, in the justice of endless pain, is suffering from at least two diseases: petrifaction of the heart and putrefaction of the brain."
"The doctor of theology has lost his power. Theological thunder has lost its lightning; it is nothing now but noise, pleasing those who make it and amusing those who hear."
"The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know."
"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven."
"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."
"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."
I could go on. He's an eminently quotable man.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
