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Robert G. Ingersoll Against Christianity: Volume 1 The War Between Reason and Religion
Robert G Ingersoll Against Christianity Volume 1 The War Between Reason and Religion Author:Robert G. Ingersoll Robert G. Ingersoll's works are a scathing analysis of Christianity and the Bible. Volume 1, Part 1 traces the long journey of humanity from superstitious supernatural religion to reason, science and progress. Part 2 points out, however, that the struggle is not finished. Today the Religious Right attacks schools for teaching Darwin. In the 19th... more »-century people were arrested for pointing out that the Bible is not infallible. Ingersoll defends Mr. Reynolds who was charged with this blasphemy. The orator's address to the jury is given. "Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy.... The church persecutes the living and her God burns the dead." - Heretics and Heresies "I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any church, of any State, to put a padlock on the lips - to make the tongue a convict. I passionately deny the right of the Herod of authority to kill the children of the brain." - The Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy« less