Robert G. Ingersoll Quote

Give any orthodox church the power, and today they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.


Heretics and Heresies (1874)


Give any orthodox church the power, and today they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief...

Give any orthodox church the power, and today they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief...

Give any orthodox church the power, and today they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief...

Give any orthodox church the power, and today they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief...