Robert Green Ingersoll
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Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.103, Library of Alexandria

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