Robert Green Ingersoll
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All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left out the commandment about keeping the Sabbath, and in its place would have said: Thou shalt not enslave thy fellow-men. He would have omitted the one about swearing, and said: The man shall have but one wife, and the woman but one husband. He would have left out the one about graven images, and in its stead would have said: Thou shalt not wage wars of extermination, and thou shalt not unsheathe the sword except in self-defence.

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