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Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 27, 2013 at 9:20 pm
I love this so I thought I would share it here and see what you think.
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.
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RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 27, 2013 at 9:27 pm
Ingersoll was great.
Quote: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, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
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RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 27, 2013 at 9:31 pm
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I could read Colonel Ingersoll all day and never tire of him. My favourite quotable nonbeliever!
Present company excepted, obviously.
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.'
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RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 27, 2013 at 9:50 pm
I find "Some Mistakes of Moses" to be an important book. I wish more people had read it. Of course, I'm sure it will be claimed it ignores "sophisticated" theology (aka kindergarten theology) by conservative apologists who will no doubt chuck out W.L. Craig, Plantinga and Swinburne, but I find that indistinguishable from "You haven't studied enough Unicornology. If you only did, you'd realize that through Olympic-level mental contortions, it can be shown to be true."
*ramble ramble*
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RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 27, 2013 at 10:09 pm
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Sophisticated theology is an oxymoron.
http://www.infidels.org/library/historic...moses.html
Infidels.org has it handy.
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RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 27, 2013 at 11:08 pm
I personally love how the only he uses to debunk the bible is the bible and some painfully obvious facts
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.
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RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 29, 2013 at 3:53 pm
The Gutenberg project has the complete works of Robert Ingersol in twelve volumes available for free.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=ingersol
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RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 29, 2013 at 4:14 pm
Love me some Ingersoll.
Must have been a tough gig in the US during the late 1800s.
Sounds like he had quite the sense of humor too.
"Some Mistakes of Moses" - lol
"I simply wanted to show you how important it is to believe these stories. Of all the authors in the world God hates a critic the worst. Having got this woman done he brought her to the man, and they started house-keeping, and a few minutes afterward a snake came through a crack in the fence and commenced to talk with her on the subject of fruit. She was not acquainted in the neighborhood, and she did not know whether snakes talked or not, or whether they knew anything about the apples or not. Well, she was misled, and the husband ate some of those apples and laid it all on his wife; and there is where the mistake was made. God ought to have rubbed him out at once. He might have known that no good could come of starting the world with a man like that. "
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RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 29, 2013 at 4:16 pm
(October 29, 2013 at 4:14 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: Love me some Ingersoll.
Must have been a tough gig in the US during the late 1800s.
Sounds like he had quite the sense of humor too.
"Some Mistakes of Moses" - lol
"I simply wanted to show you how important it is to believe these stories. Of all the authors in the world God hates a critic the worst. Having got this woman done he brought her to the man, and they started house-keeping, and a few minutes afterward a snake came through a crack in the fence and commenced to talk with her on the subject of fruit. She was not acquainted in the neighborhood, and she did not know whether snakes talked or not, or whether they knew anything about the apples or not. Well, she was misled, and the husband ate some of those apples and laid it all on his wife; and there is where the mistake was made. God ought to have rubbed him out at once. He might have known that no good could come of starting the world with a man like that. "
Not to mention he died with a smile on his face
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.
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RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 29, 2013 at 4:21 pm
Quote:Must have been a tough gig in the US during the late 1800s.
Not really. That's more of a misrepresentation by lying jesus shits. It was basically an early 20th century phenomena.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_fundamentalism
Quote:Christian fundamentalism, also known as fundamentalist Christianity, or simply fundamentalism,[1] refers to a movement begun in the late 19th and early 20th century British and American Protestant denominations among evangelicals who reacted energetically against theological and cultural modernism.[2] Fundamentalists argued that 19th century modernist theologians had misinterpreted or rejected certain doctrines, especially biblical inerrancy, which evangelicals viewed as the fundamentals of Christian faith.[3] A few scholars regard Catholics who reject modern theology in favor of more traditional doctrines as fundamentalists.[4] Scholars debate how much the terms "evangelical" and "fundamentalist" are synonymous.
Fundamentalism is a movement manifested in various denominations with various theologies, rather than a single denomination or systematic theology. It became active in the 1910s after the release of the Fundamentals, a ten-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic written by conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy. The movement became more organized in the 1920s within U.S. Protestant churches, especially Baptist and Presbyterian. Many such churches adopted a "fighting style" and combined Princeton theology with Dispensationalism.[2] Since 1930, many fundamentalist churches in North America and around the world have been represented by the Independent Fundamental Churches of America (renamed IFCA International in 1996), which holds to biblical inerrancy, the Virgin birth of Jesus, substitutionary atonement, the literal resurrection of Christ, and the Second Coming of Christ, among other doctrines.
This is the Wiki version - laziness on my part - but they list their sources and they are all out there to read.
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