The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12): Dresden Edition—DiscussionsIngersoll, Robert Green
Religion
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12): Dresden Edition—Discussions
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Free thought
Defence of the Lecture on Moses--How Biblical Miracles are sought to
be Proved--Some _Non Sequiturs_--A Grammatical Criticism--Christianity
Destructive of Manners--Cuvier and Agassiz on Mosaic Cosmogony--Clerical
Advance agents--Christian Threats and Warnings--Catholicism the Upas
Tree--Hebrew Scholarship as a Qualification for Deciding Probababilities
--Contradictions and Mistranslations of the Bible--Number of Errors in
the Scriptures--The Sunday Question.
AN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS.
(1881.)
Charged with Blasphemy in the State of Delaware--Can a Conditionless
Deity be Injured?--Injustice the only Blasphemy--The Lecture
in Delaware--Laws of that State--All Sects in turn Charged with
Blasphemy--Heresy Consists in making God Better than he is Thought
to Be--A Fatal Biblical Passage--Judge Comegys--Wilmington
Preachers--States with Laws against Blasphemy--No Danger of Infidel
Mobs--No Attack on the State of Delaware Contemplated--Comegys a
Resurrection--Grand Jury's Refusal to Indict--Advice about the Cutting
out of Heretics' Tongues--Objections to the Whipping-post--Mr. Bergh's
Bill--One Remedy for Wife-beating.
A REPLY TO REV. DRS. THOMAS AND LORIMER.
(8882.)
Solemnity--Charged with Being Insincere--Irreverence--Old Testament
Better than the New--"Why Hurt our Feelings?"--Involuntary Action of
the Brain--Source of our Conceptions of Space--Good and Bad--Right and
Wrong--The Minister, the Horse and the Lord's Prayer--Men Responsible
for their Actions--The "Gradual" Theory Not Applicable to
the Omniscient--Prayer Powerless to Alter Results--Religious
Persecution--Orthodox Ministers Made Ashamed of their
Creed--Purgatory--Infidelity and Baptism Contrasted--Modern Conception
of the Universe--The Golden Bridge of Life--"The Only Salutation"--The
Test for Admission to Heaven--"Scurrility."
A REPLY TO REV. JOHN HALL AND WARNER VAN NORDEN.
(1892.)
Dr. Hall has no Time to Discuss the subject of Starving
Workers--Cloakmakers' Strike--Warner Van Norden of the Church Extension
Society--The Uncharitableness of Organized Charity--Defence of the
Cloakmakers--Life of the Underpaid--On the Assertion that Assistance
encourages Idleness and Crime--The Man without Pity an Intellectual
Beast--Tendency of Prosperity to Breed Selfishness--Thousands Idle
without Fault--Egotism of Riches--Van Norden's Idea of Happiness--The
Worthy Poor.
A REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB.
(1898.)
Interview in a Boston Paper--Why should a Minister call this a "Poor"
World?--Would an Infinite God make People who Need a Redeemer?--Gospel
Gossip--Christ's Sayings Repetitions--The Philosophy of Confucius--Rev.
Mr. Mills--The Charge of "Robbery"--The Divine Plan.
A REPLY TO THE NEW YORK CLERGY ON SUPERSTITION.
(1898.)
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