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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes: This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
         

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.


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Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.



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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.



Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.



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.



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

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





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We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

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Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.



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