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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Forgiveness, God, Forgive Me

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

Robert Green Ingersoll
God, Thinking, Want
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3989, Library of Alexandria

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

Robert Green Ingersoll
God, Religious, Men
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.902, Library of Alexandria

A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

Robert Green Ingersoll
God, Religious, Hypocrite
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

Robert Green Ingersoll
God, Jesus, Believe
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.895, Library of Alexandria

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

Robert Green Ingersoll
God, Destiny, Farce
Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.33

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll
God, Men, Religion
'The Gods' (1876) pt. 1, p. 2.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.

Robert Green Ingersoll
God, Real, Ignorance
Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.31

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