The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I …

Robert Green Ingersoll
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The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.322, Library of Alexandria
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The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

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