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Quotes from A Thanksgiving Sermon — Robert G. Ingersoll

1833–1899 United States

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The scientists never persecuted, never imprisoned their fellow-men.

A Thanksgiving Sermon (1897)

Can any farmer, mechanic, or scientist find in the New Testament one useful fact?

A Thanksgiving Sermon (1897)

It taught that the business of this life was to prepare for death.

A Thanksgiving Sermon (1897)

Did they explain any of the phenomena of nature?

A Thanksgiving Sermon (1897)

Satan sought in many ways to scandalize the church. He sometimes assumed the appearance of a priest and committed crimes.

A Thanksgiving Sermon (1897)

The “Black Death” was sent by the eternal Father, whose mercy spared some and whose justice murdered the rest.

A Thanksgiving Sermon (1897)

They did not regard men as slaves to be ruled by torture, by lash and chain, nor as children to be cheated with illusions, rocked in the cradle of an idiot creed and soothed by a lullaby of lies.

A Thanksgiving Sermon (1897)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert G. Ingersoll (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.