It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones …

Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.2025, Library of Alexandria
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