#Robert Green Ingersoll

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Each nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved, and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. Each god was intensely patriotic, and detested all nations but his own. All these gods demanded praise, flattery, worship. Most of them were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume. All these gods have insisted upon having a vast number of priests, and the priests have always insisted upon being supported by the people, and the principal business of these priests has been to boast about their god, and to insist that he could easily vanquish all the other gods put together.

These gods have been manufactured after numberless models, and according to the most grotesque fashions. Some have a thousand arms, some a hundred heads, some are adorned with necklaces of living snakes, some are armed with clubs, some with sword and shield, some with bucklers, and some have wings as a cherub; some were invisible, some would show themselves entire, and some would only show their backs; some were jealous, some were foolish, some turned themselves into men, some into swans, some into bulls, some into doves, and some into Holy Ghosts, and made love to the beautiful daughters of men. Some were married—all ought to have been—and some were considered as old bachelors from all eternity. Some had children, and the children were turned into gods and worshiped as their fathers had been. Most of these gods were revengeful, savage, lustful, and ignorant. As they generally depended upon their priests for information, their ignorance can hardly excite our astonishment.

These gods did not even know the shape of the worlds they had created, but supposed them perfectly flat Some thought the day could be lengthened by stopping the sun, that the blowing of horns could throw down the walls of a city, and all knew so little of the real nature of the people they had created, that they commanded the people to love them. Some were so ignorant as to suppose that man could believe just as he might desire, or as they might command, and that to be governed by observation, reason, and experience was a most foul and damning sin. None of these gods could give a true account of the creation of this little earth. All were wofully deficient in geology and astronomy. As a rule, they were most miserable legislators, and as executives, they were far inferior to the average of American presidents.

These deities have demanded the most abject and degrading obedience. In order to please them, man must lay his very face in the dust. Of course, they have always been partial to the people who created them, and have generally shown their partiality by assisting those people to rob and destroy others, and to ravish their wives and daughters.

Nothing is so pleasing to these gods as the butchery of unbelievers. Nothing so enrages them, even now, as to have some one deny their existence.

-- Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Gods - And Other Lectures"

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[elegantzombielite]

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11th August 1833-1899)

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[ophelia-network]

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” —Robert Green Ingersoll

The Repose Of Fire by Welder Wings

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[aunti-christ-ine]

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[julesofnature]

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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[waiting-eyez]

Colleges are places where

pebbles are polished and

diamonds are dimmed.

(Robert Green Ingersoll)

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[ahdndnaneb]

“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word of liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.”

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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[linusjf]

Robert Green Ingersoll: Justice

“The triumph of justice is the only peace.” —Robert Green Ingersoll. Robert G. Ingersoll. Library of Congress description: “Ingersoll, Robert (The Infidel)”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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[hferdfjkbadfnc]

#Voltaire #robert green ingersoll #atheism #lecture #i tried to translate it to my mother language but i just can't -.-“”“ #i REALLY hope someone will do that one day #everytime I read some pages of this -yeah i'm sloooow- I just feel good inside #i like both the writing style and the topic #please share this everywhere i don't f*cking care if you quote me #just share this f*cking book *-*

[underground211]

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." -Robert Green Ingersoll

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument." -- Robert G. Ingersoll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll#Lawyer

Ingersoll was involved with several major trials as an attorney [..] He also defended a New Jersey man charged with blasphemy. Although he did not win the acquittal, his vigorous defense is considered to have discredited blasphemy laws and few other prosecutions followed.

The original Cancel Culture.

September 30 is International Blasphemy Day.

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[elegantzombielite]

"The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this."

Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

#athoughtfortoday #Robert Green Ingersoll #action #love #practical

[twicedailyquotes]

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

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[zt19e]

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[cupofteajones]

Quote of the Day- June 13, 2022

Quote of the Day- June 13, 2022

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[postersbykeith]

#quotes #Robert Green Ingersol #it always seemed absurd #god #eternity