Vulgar words in Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest (Page 1)

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All religions have been based upon the idea that God will forever reward the true believer, and eternally damn the man who doubts or denies.

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Is there any God that would damn a man for helping to free three millions of people?

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This being fastened upon the throat, the sufferer could not sit down, he could not walk, he could not stir without being punctured by those needles, and in a little while the throat would begin to swell, and finally suffocation would end the agonies of that man, when may be the only crime he had committed was to say, with tears upon his sublime cheeks, "I do not believe that God, the father of us all, will damn to eternal punishment any of the children of men."

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Tell me there is a God in the serene heaven that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!

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I will go down with the ship; and if there is a God who will damn his children forever I had rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous Deity.

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"Well," said he, "here is what I mean: the Unitarian thinks he is too good to be damned, and the Universalist thinks God is too good to damn him, and I believe them both."

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Oh, yes, no matter how bad you are, you can instantly be forgiven then; and no matter how good you are, if you fail to believe that, the moment you get to the day of judgment nothing is left but to damn you forever, and all the angels will shout "Hallelujah!"

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I say, "All right, I do;" but he says, "I will damn mine."

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"God so loved the world" He is going to damn most everybody, and, if this Christian religion be true, some of the greatest, and grandest, and best who ever lived upon this earth, are suffering its torments tonight.

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The soul goes to heaven, where there is nothing but good society; no bad examples; and they are all there, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and yet they can do nothing for that poor unfortunate except to damn him.

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And I tell you God cannot afford to damn a man in the next world who has made a happy family in this.

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And yet this creed says that on the last day God will damn anyone who has walked according to this light.

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Do you believe that God--if there is one--will ever damn me for thinking Him better than He is?

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Is it possible that He would damn me for being honest, and give me wings if I would play the hypocrite?

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Do you tell me tonight if Captain Kruger was not a Christian and he had sent that ball crashing through his generous brain that there was an Almighty waiting to clutch his naked soul that He might damn him forever?

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I said some time ago that if there was any being who would eternally damn one of his children for the expression of an honest opinion that he was not a God, but that he was a demon; and from that they have said first, that I did not believe in any God, and, secondly, that I called Him a demon.

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That is the spirit, and it is a spirit born of the doctrine that there is upon the throne of the universe a being who will eternally damn his children, and they said: "If God is going to have the supreme happiness of burning them forever, certainly he ought not to begrudge to us the joy of burning them for an hour or two."

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Nothing can make me believe that there is any being that is going to burn and torment and damn his children forever.

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With all due respect to everybody, I say, damn any such doctrine as that.

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Didn't they damn into eternal flames the man who discovered the world was round?

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Didn't they damn into eternal flames the man who discovered the movement of the earth in its orbit?

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Yet I may declare that the earth is flat, and he'll not damn me for that.

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I say that book is not inspired, and there is no infinitely good God who will damn one human soul.

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God won't damn a man for things like that.

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And can any God damn such a soul?

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Now, I read the bible, and I find that God so loved this world that He made up His mind to damn the most of us.

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Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief.

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Is it a compliment to an infinite God to say that every being He ever made deserved to be damned the minute He had got him done, and that He will damn everybody He has not had a chance to make over?

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Let every man try to make every day a joy, and God cannot afford to damn such a man.

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That a man should be punished for having come to an honest conclusion, the honest production of his brain; that an honest conclusion should be deemed a crime and so declared, it is an infamous, monstrous assertion, and I would rather go to hell than to keep the company of a God who would damn his child for an honest belief.

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Ingersoll's lecture on The Religion of Our Day Ladies and Gentlemen:--I am glad that I have lived long enough to see one gentleman in the pulpit brave enough to say that God would not be offended at one who speaks according to the dictates of his conscience; who does not believe that God will give wings to a bird, and then damn the bird for flying.

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Is there a God who says that if man does so and so He will damn him?

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They have got so now they damn a man on a technicality.

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The Deity will damn Spencer and his "Evolution," Darwin and his "Origin of Species," Bastin and his "Spontaneous Generation," Huxley and his "Protoplasm," Tyndall and his "Prayer Guage," and will save those, and those only who declare that the universe has been cursed from the smallest atom to the grandest star; that everything tends to evil, and to that only; and that the only perfect thing in Nature is the Presbyterian confession of faith.

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Now, I read the bible, and I find that God so loved this world that he made up his mind to damn the most of us.

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He thought God would not damn even a priest forever.

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