The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber disl…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.100, Library of Alexandria
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