The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If Christ, in fact, said "I came not to bring peace but a sword," it is the only prophecy in the New… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write the name of Charles Darwin on the one hand and the name of every theologian who ever lived on the other, and from that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
