God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward im…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc
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