Bible Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost..

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

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

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

“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has…

— Robert Green Ingersoll