Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes about Church

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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Hate, Religion, Church

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.100, Library of Alexandria

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Church, Miserable, Teach

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.274, Library of Alexandria

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Doubt, Progress, Church

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.88, Library of Alexandria

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Thinking, Atheism, Church

Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.183

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Atheism, Church, Positive Atheism

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1410, Library of Alexandria

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion, Church, Pioneers

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2699, Library of Alexandria

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Church, Pay, Able

Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Mistake, Miracle, Church

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.375, Library of Alexandria

The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?

Robert Green Ingersoll

Atheism, Church, Mosaics

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1846, Library of Alexandria