Robert Ingersol Quotes....from 138 years ago. Still so true!

[KansasVoter]

We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, "The Gods" (1872)

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called "faith."
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, The Gods (1872)

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, "Orthodoxy" (1884)

[Nay]

1. I love Ingersoll. What's so amazing is that a person who would say

this stuff now would never, ever have the audiences he did back then. Tens of thousands of people came out to hear Ingersoll speak wherever he went. He was like a rock star. Today? Wouldn't happen.

[KansasVoter]

2. So true! And disappointing!

[pnorman]

3. Ingerspll was a Republican. when it was the party of Lincoln, rather than rebadged Dixiecrats!

Here's his Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll

[pnorman]

4. .....that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called "faith."

That's a SAVER!