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Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion, Atheism, World
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 hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Hands, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.886, Library of Alexandria

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Race, Religion, Mind
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.905, Library of Alexandria

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion, Atheism, Reform
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1182, Library of Alexandria

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Forever, Enemy, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1083, Library of Alexandria

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Intellectual, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance, Miracle, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1070, Library of Alexandria

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Religion, Atheism

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion, Facts
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.308, Library of Alexandria

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Intelligence, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2336, Library of Alexandria

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

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Ignorance, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1882). “Wit, Wisdom, Eloquence, and Great Speeches of Col. R. G. Ingersoll: Including Eloquent Extracts, Witty, Wise, Pungent, Truthful Sayings and Full Reports of the Great Speeches of this Celebrated Man, Together with the Funeral Oration at His Brother's Grave”

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Doubt, Religion, Atheism
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.977, Library of Alexandria

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance, Religion, Atheism
Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.113

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

Robert Green Ingersoll
Religious, Selfish, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2591, Library of Alexandria

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Religion, Civilized
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

Robert Green Ingersoll
Miracle, Religion, Credit
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2603, Library of Alexandria

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Two, Religion, Slavery
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2437, Library of Alexandria

According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Two, Religion, Peculiar
"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Feet, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.277, Library of Alexandria

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion, Immortal Soul, Doe
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2417, Library of Alexandria

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion, Denial, Facts
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.929, Library of Alexandria

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Mind, Religion, Doe
Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). “Lectures and Essays (a Selection)”

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth, Errors, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.774, Library of Alexandria

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