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Church Quotes by 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, the Pope is…
- Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
- I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it…
- The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that…
- The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by…
- It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, --…
- If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.
- If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
- The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of…
- The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
- Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
- Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do…
- Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every…
- The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I…
- The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
- If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise
- Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will…
- The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified…
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- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly… — Michele Bachmann
- I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. — Michael Badnarik
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we… — Don Adams
- See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious. — Charles Barkley
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth