Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a messag…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.2217, Library of Alexandria
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One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).
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The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). … ▶
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.2217, Library of Alexandria

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