Reading Time: 4 minutes In some ways, the malign influence of Christianity makes the entire planet unsafe—the alliance between US fundamentalists seeking to bring on the Second Coming and Jewish fanatics in Israel and Palestine is just one example, and it nicely demonstrates that the outsize power of America gives its many fundamentalists global reach, too. This is why […]
Robert Ingersoll
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Ingersoll on Salvation
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. Here is the great man talking about salvation. (Please visit theingersolltimes.com for more on this great man in […]
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What a Man!
Reading Time: < 1 minute This man was evidently an oratory legend. An interesting 3 minutes. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i21MyJhmHs[/youtube]
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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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November Ingersoll. Come Check Out the Great Man!
Reading Time: 5 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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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 […]
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Five Times When Jesus Sounded Like a Humanist
Reading Time: 14 minutes I’ve said before that I’m not much of a fan of Jesus. If the reports of what he taught his followers have any truth to them, he said a number of things to which I object (and I don’t mean just the parts about believing in invisible spirits). The Jesus I Don’t Like For one thing, […]
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Robert Ingersoll’s Creed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Robert G. Ingersoll is one of my heroes. He confronted religious faith and showed that it was nothing more than primitive superstition. At the end of the 19th century, he had accumulated quite a following for what he called “freethought,” based on reason, logic and experience. Sadly, he died in 1899 at 66, far too […]
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Creation vs. Big Bang
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been reading a lot of Thomas Paine recently. I just finished “Age of Reason.” I know that Robert Ingersoll, “The Great Agnostic” of the 19th Century, admired Paine, and it is clear that many of his ideas came from Paine’s writings, especially “Age of Reason.” The phrasing that Ingersoll uses to describe the […]