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Robert Ingersoll

Ingersoll on Salvation

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

Robert Ingersoll

What a Man!

This man was evidently an oratory legend. An interesting 3 minutes. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i21MyJhmHs[/youtube]

Robert Green Ingersoll

March Ingersoll

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

November Ingersoll. Come Check Out the Great Man!

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Rare Recordings of the Great Agnostic

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! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=154&v=rLLapwIoEVI

Robert Green Ingersoll

October Ingersoll Come Check Out the Great Man!

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

Creation vs. Big Bang

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

The Superlative Robert Green Ingersoll

Robert Green Ingersoll was a truly great thinker. You can find a great deal of awesome content from him on the superlative theingersolltimes.com website. Please check it out, and send its curator your appreciation for putting it together. He is a tireless worker! Something for your Monday: By the

Ingersoll: Reason and the Brain

Ingersoll: Reason and the Brain

These are truly beautiful words from Robert G Ingersoll, as taken from the superb site which has a fine selection of his writing, curated by a friend of mine: Reason and the Brain Nature has furnished every human being with a light more or less brilliant, more or less powerful.

A little Ingersoll for you

Robert Ingersoll

A little Ingersoll for you

Robert Green Ingersoll was a truly great thinker. You can find a great deal of awesome content from him on the superlative theingersolltimes.com website. Please check it out, and send its curator your appreciation for putting it together. Something for your Monday:

The Doctrine of Atonement - Robert Ingersoll

I have elsewhere talked about how the Doctrine of the Atonement is simply nonsensical. Well, here is the eminent thinker Robert Ingersoll on the subject. According to one of these gospels, and according to the prevalent Christian belief, the Christian religion rests upon the doctrine of the at

The Immorality of the Atonement - The Idea that God Wants Blood

Here is another piece, this time on the atonement and sin, from a friend who supplies adverts and what have you to the Free Inquiry magazine amongst others. He has a special interest in the fascinating life of Robert Ingersoll.

Kitteridge on Ingersoll on Free Will

In refutation of the argument for "free moral agency," Ingersoll once used the following illustration, -- itself an argument as clear as it is unanswerable: -- "It is insisted that man is free, and is responsible, because he knows right from wrong. But the compass does not navigate the ship; neit

1897 illustration of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Swineherd." In public domain (from Wikimedia Commons).

Philosophy of Religion

Robert Ingersoll

I recently heard Susan Jacoby wax lyrical about Ingersoll on the Reasonable Doubts podcast and I must confess, I know very little about him. I feel, though, that I should as he appears to have been an iconoclast in his time. I was recently sent a message by Julian Haydon alerting me to this link