The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.
Robert G. IngersollInjustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
Robert G. IngersollTag: injustice justice philosophy atheism heaven contradiction impossibility ingersoll problem-of-evil argument-from-problem-of-evil atheism-arguments
Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and suppose that afterward this same God took upon himself flesh, and came to this very chosen people and taught a different religion, and that thereupon the Jews crucified him; I ask you, did he not reap exactly what he had sown? What right would this god have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?
Robert G. IngersollTag: humor superstition contradiction jews heresy blasphemy jew
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...
Robert G. IngersollTag: honesty knowledge understanding conceit learn willing
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
Robert G. IngersollTag: science shakespeare admiration drama honor praise william-shakespeare recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist
The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.
Robert G. IngersollThe real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the Christian accuses the Agnostic of arrogance, and asks him how he has the impudence to admit the limitations of his mind. To the Agnostic every fact is a torch, and by this light, and this light only, he walks.
The Agnostic knows that the testimony of man is not sufficient to establish what is known as the miraculous. We would not believe to-day the testimony of millions to the effect that the dead had been raised. The church itself would be the first to attack such testimony. If we cannot believe those whom we know, why should we believe witnesses who have been dead thousands of years, and about whom we know nothing?
The Agnostic takes the ground that human experience is the basis of morality. Consequently, it is of no importance who wrote the gospels, or who vouched or vouches for the genuineness of the miracles. In his scheme of life these things are utterly unimportant. He is satisfied that “the miraculous” is the impossible. He knows that the witnesses were wholly incapable of examining the questions involved, that credulity had possession of their minds, that 'the miraculous' was expected, that it was their daily food.
Tag: science life knowledge reason morality ethics belief mind atheism miracles fact arrogance atheist superstition definition importance credulity evidence testimony proof agnosticism agnostic limitation gospels ingersoll agnostic-defined christian-gospels
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