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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 believed only by

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 believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Religious, Pain, Ignorance
Robert Green Ingersoll (1990). “On The Gods and Other Essays”

The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Pain, Heaven, Religion
"The Great Infidels" by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1881.

Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Children, Pain
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.216, 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... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Pain, Revenge, Real

To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Prayer, Pain, Passion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2155, Library of Alexandria

The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Pain, Son, Past
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.474, Library of Alexandria

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Pain, Men, Heaven
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc”

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Pain, Unity, Done

For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Christian, Religious, Pain

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