Robert G. Ingersoll: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll |
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
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