If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.Robert Ingersoll
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand injustice everywhere hypocrisy at the altar venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong
Robert Ingersoll
My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd.
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It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god
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And we are called upon to worship such a God to get upon our knees and tell him that he is good, that he is merciful, that he is just, that he is love
Robert Ingersoll
If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good
Robert Ingersoll
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