If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man
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The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her gloryRobert Ingersoll
Read it as you would any other book think of it as you would of any other get the bandage of reverence from your eyes drive from your heart the phantom of fear push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.
Robert Ingersoll
But if the witnesses are inspired of God then there is no reason for their disagreeing on anything, and if they do disagree it is a demonstration that they were not inspired
Robert Ingersoll
There is not in all the pulpits ingenuity enough to harmonize these ignorant and stupid contradictions
Robert Ingersoll
Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed
Robert Ingersoll
It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle
Robert Ingersoll
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