Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

Thousands of volumes could not contain the crimes of the Catholic Church. They could not contain even the names of her victims.

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 […]

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.

Did these words come from the heart of love? — “When the Lord thy God shall drive them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, or show mercy unto them.” “I will heap mischief upon them. I will send mine arrows upon them; they shall […]

It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind; and yet among them is not found Thou shalt believe The Bible.

It (The Bible) has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge.

The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted.