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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes: My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
         

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.


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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.



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Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.



Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.



The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.



Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.



Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.



The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.



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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.





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