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Quotes from To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) — Robert G. Ingersoll

1833–1899 United States

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We are in a world where vice, deformity, weakness, and disease are hereditary. In the presence of this immense and solemn truth rises the religion of the body.

To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)

There is this peculiarity in our country—the only men who can be trusted with human liberty are the ones who are not to be angels hereafter.

To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)

Paul quotes none of the miracles of the New Testament.

To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)

The statistics show that a large majority die under five years of age. What would we think of a schoolmaster who killed the most of his pupils the first day?

To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)

He had never heard of the lame, the halt, and the blind that had been cured; or if he had, he did not think these incidents of enough importance to be embalmed in an epistle.

To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this. If he allows injustice to prevail here, why will he not allow the same thing in the world to come?

To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)

I do not rely upon superstition, but upon knowledge; not upon miracles, but upon facts; not upon the dead, but upon the living; and when we become absolutely civilized, we shall look back upon the superstitions of the world, not simply with contempt, but with pity.

To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)

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