Robert G. Ingersoll - Religion Quotes

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The dead do not suffer. And if they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all.
We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

Robert G. Ingersoll

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I am a believer in liberty. That is my religion — to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right — because it is his right — but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge — in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Robert G. Ingersoll