RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 29, 2013 at 5:46 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2013 at 5:47 pm by Lemonvariable72.)
(October 29, 2013 at 4:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That was the sort of stuff that Ingersoll was dealing with in the 1880's. Mencken, 50 years later, was dealing with the anti-evolution Monkey Trial variant of idiot xtian.
The 2d Great Awakening gave rise to the abolitionist movement which would be anathema to the religious right of today, for example. It also led to the women's suffrage movement and that's a bottle they've been trying to re-cork every since on the right.
I was under the impression that the 2nd great awakening gave rise to things like Mormons, Christian scientists, and Jehovah's witnesses. But that said, the abolitionist movement seems to have come from religious and non religious alike.
(October 29, 2013 at 5:32 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Ingersoll was well like, actually. To the point where many wanted him to run for a high public office. Granted, his agnosticism prevented him from (I believe) legally attaining too high a position, which is why his supporters wanted him to hide his theological views while running for office.
Aye, the americans could use a president like him now.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
