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To: Greg or e who wrote (61513)	10/29/2014 11:29:43 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

"What: no quotes from your favorite Lawyer?" Thanks for the reminder! They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, " The Limitations of Toleration"The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites -- and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, " The Limitations of Toleration" The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, " Crumbling Creeds" Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "Orthodoxy" (1884) The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread -- a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, from " Why I Am an Agnostic" (1896) The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian -- like a doctor of divinity. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, from " Superstition" (1898)