Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) was a most singular figure—a political speechmaker without whose support the Republican Party could not put a candidate in the White House—who also crisscrossed the country lecturing to the largest theater crowds of the day about why there is no hell.
Some Mistakes of Moses
“Theologians have filled thousands of volumes with abuse of this serpent, but it seems that he told the exact truth.”
Absurdities of the Gods
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), America’s leading agnostic, was a far more thoughtful, moral, and humane freethinker than most of his religious critics ever realized. He did indeed attack the fallacies of religion and supernaturalism at every turn—but also promoted reason, science, freedom, and humanism. In the following excerpt from his famous essay “The Gods,” he …