Robert Ingersoll's sparkling wit, lightning-bolt honesty, and vast love for humanity offered enormous RELIEF from religious force and fear in America's late 1800's.

Presented by Connie Cook Smith

Please note, most of the numbered tabs above take you to brief pages of direct quotes by Robert Ingersoll on those various subjects. My own essays are not numbered and are headed up with my byline, my name.

5. CHRISTIANS


I do not say, and I do not believe, that Christians are as bad as their creeds. (Belief in hell and damnation, for example.) In spite of church and dogma, there have been millions and millions of men and women true to the loftiest and most generous promptings of the human heart…And yet, they have believed that all unbelievers would be eternally lost. They killed heretics because they believed they were the enemies of God…And all this because it was commanded by a book – a book that men had been taught implicitly to believe, long before they knew one word that was in it.  They had been taught that to doubt the truth of this book was a crime of such enormity that it could not be forgiven, either in this world or in the next.
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