Robert Ingersoll Quotes on Christianity (9 Quotes)

Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men

If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'

If Christ, in fact, said I came not to bring peace but a sword, it is the only prophecy in the New Testament that has been literally fulfilled

The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory

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 glory

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.