Thousands of volumes could not contain the crimes of the Catholic Church. They could not contain even the names of her victims.
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
Christ was crucified by a religious rabble for the crime of blasphemy. Nothing is more gratifying to a religionist than to destroy his enemies at the command of God. Religious persecution springs from a due admixture of love towards God and hatred towards man.
There is this strange thing about the history of theology – nobody has ever been charged with blasphemy who thought God bad. For instance, it never would have excited any theologian if a man had insisted that God would finally damn everybody. Nearly all heresy has consisted in making God better than the majority in […]
If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and – if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this […]
We are asked to justify these frightful passages, these infamous laws of war, because the Bible is the word of God. As a matter of fact, there never was, and there never can be, an argument even tending to prove the inspiration of any book whatever. In the absence of positive evidence, analogy and experience, […]
You wonder how I can be wicked enough to attack the Bible. I will tell you: This book, the Bible, has persecuted, even unto death the wisest and the best. This book stayed and stopped the onward movement of the human race. This book poisoned the fountains of learning and misdirected the energies of man. […]
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
