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To: Brumar89 who wrote (8256)	7/10/2010 6:38:22 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Well, we know what sort of pathological liar you are! Should I shove the opinions of Twain, Whitman, Stanton, Burbank, Douglas, Edison, and Lincoln aside for the phony (and invented) views of some two-bit (and probably psychotic) Village Idiot?? Why would it be sensible for me to do that?? You admire Ingersoll immensely but you are too dishonorable to admit it. You believe he was one of the greatest humans who ever lived but you continue to lie to this thread. "July 21, 1999 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Robert G. Ingersoll (b.1833). Called "The Great Agnostic" by newspapers of the day and, by all accounts, the nation's most oft-heard orator, Ingersoll was an enlightened, humane freethinker, a visionary, an advocate for unpopular causes such as women’s', childrens', and minority rights, and a combatant against superstition and hypocrisy. Greatly admired by the likes of Mark Twain, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Luther Burbank, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Edison and Walt Whitman, his gift for oratory, his wit, common sense and compassion made him one of the most famous people of the 19th century. A Union colonel in the Civil War, an eloquent lawyer, and a politician who ... but for his habit of giving speeches mercilessly revealing religion's absurdities ... might have been the Republican Party's candidate for Governor of Illinois, Ingersoll's wisdom is still relevant today."