The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
More Quotes By Robert Green Ingersoll
Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden... The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen... It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common... Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself... The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and... The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief... The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either ‘explained,’ or allowed... As long as every question is answered by the word “God,” scientific inquiry is simply impossible.
Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows... According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according... The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the... Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is...
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