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Robert G. Ingersoll Against Christianity: Volume 6 Women, Christianity and Freethinkers
Robert G Ingersoll Against Christianity Volume 6 Women Christianity and Freethinkers Author:Robert G. Ingersoll When the rights of even one human being are held in contempt the rights of all are in danger. We cannot destroy the liberties of others without losing our own. By exciting the prejudices of the ignorant we at last produce a contempt for law and justice, and sow the seeds of violence and crime. -- "Should the Chinese be Excluded?" The Free... more »thinker Library is a collection of books of interest to freethinkers, humanists, atheists, feminists, and political progressives. They were written between 1870 and 1915. The FT Library includes a seven volume collection on religion by Robert G. Ingersoll as well as books by Thomas Paine, Voltairine de Cleyre, M. Ricker, J. McCabe, and others. These works are highly critical of Christianity, the Bible, and sexism. "Robert G. Ingersoll Against Christianity," contains 6 critical volumes on religion by the famous Freethinker and the biography of the orator by Herman E. Kittredge. Robert G. Ingersoll's works are a scathing analysis of Christianity and the Bible. Part 1 of this volume covers Ingersoll's views on Civil Rights and women's subjection by Christianity. It Includes his famous speech, "The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child," in which he argues for the equality of husband and wife and loving treatment of children. He condemns the biblical defense of witchcraft, polygamy and the abuse of children, corporal punishment, the condemnation of pagan religions, slavery, etc. He also condemns the teaching of Paul that women are inferior to men. The freethinker provides the preface to Helen H. Gardner's excellent book," Man, Women and Gods." He declares the right of husbands and wives to seek a divorce. Part 2 includes many of Ingersoll's tributes to Freethinkers, Humanists, Feminists, and Atheists. Among them are: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman.« less