Reading Time: 4 minutes Superstition in all it many forms faced two significant challenges in 1881. This was the year that G W Foote launched his UK atheist magazine, The Freethinker, saying that “it will wage relentless war against Superstition in general, and against Christian Superstition in particular.” Meanwhile, across the pond, bon viveur William Fowler found a different […]
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Ingersoll’s Pivot Point
Reading Time: < 1 minute My friend sent me this by email. I like the term “pivot point”. What was yours?: I did not go seeking this. I found it during a second reading of Ingersoll’s grandaughter’s (Eva Ingersoll Wakefield) “The Letters of Robert Ingersoll” published in 1951. The first 68 pages contain a marvellous review of his life, lectures, […]
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Exoneration of Jesus Christ
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here is what the Chicago Times, Oct 14, 1894, said about a talk by Robert Ingersoll: When Ingersoll reached the words “He did not know”a great sigh of relief went up from the mighty audience [of 4000].There was an instant of silence, and then a storm of applause that rose and surged and echoed from […]
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How Would God Feel Then?
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is (only structurally) adapted from the great Ingersoll. Ingersoll nails a poignant idea here. HOW WOULD GOD FEEL THEN? Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) In the sixth chapter [of Matthew] I find the following, and it comes directly after the prayer known as the Lord’s prayer: “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will […]
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July Ingersoll
Reading Time: 2 minutes My friend Julian Haydon has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. Please check it out – the link is below. To give respect to both men, I will be posting some Ingersoll delights once a month […]
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June Ingersoll: Doubting Brains
Reading Time: < 1 minute My friend Julian Haydon has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. Please check it out – the link is below. To give respect to both men, I will be posting some Ingersoll delights once a month […]
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February Ingersoll: On Belief
Reading Time: 3 minutes Yes, it’s March. Well done clever clogs. But I have been a bit busy to notice, and I forgot February’s Ingersoll (and January’s, for that matter). My friend Julian Haydon has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. […]
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March Ingersoll
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have forgotten for the last few months, so… My friend Julian Haydon has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. Please check it out – the link is below. To give respect to both men, I will […]
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Rare Recordings of the Great Agnostic
Reading Time: < 1 minute Thanks to Jim Jones for finding these rare recordings of the Great Agnostic. So sad that so much hasn’t changed. Not jot. Ingersoll would be turning in his grave!
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October Ingersoll Come Check Out the Great Man!
Reading Time: 3 minutes My friend, Julian Haydon, has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Imgersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. Please check it out – the link is below. To give respect to both men, I will be posting some Ingersoll delights once a month […]