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Why I Am An Agnostic, by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Ingersoll was America's finest orator and foremost leader of freethinkers. Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Eugene V. Debs, and Elizabeth Cady used to gather to hear the speeches of "the great agnostic."

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Paperback: 54 pages

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 8, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1481938894

ISBN-13: 978-1481938891

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6 x 0.1 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll (1833-1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator known as 'The Great Agnostic.' His collected speeches (e.g., Complete Lectures of Robert G. Ingersoll) are one of the genuine "treasures" of freethought literature.He states, “Like the most of you, I was raised among people who knew—who were certain. They did not reason or investigate. They had no doubts…. In their creed there was no guess---no perhaps. They had a revelation from God… They knew the origin, the cause of evil, of all crime, of all disease and death. They not only knew the beginning, but they knew the end. That knew that life had one path and one road… They knew that God was doing his best to make you take the path and that the Devil used every art to keep you in the road.” (Pg. 2-3)He notes, “I heard hundreds of these evangelical sermons---heard hundreds of the most fearful and vivid descriptions of the tortures inflicted in hell, of the horrible state of the lost. I supposed that what I heard was true and yet I did not believe it. I said, ‘It is,’ and then I thought, ‘It cannot be.’ … One Sunday I went with my brother to hear a Free Will Baptist preacher… he was an orator. He could paint a picture with words… For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain---appreciated ‘the glad tidings of great joy.’ For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said, ‘It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, then I hate your God.’” (Pg. 9-11)He continues, “The orthodox God… told his disciples not to resist evil, to love their enemies… and yet we are told that this same God…uttered these heartless, these fiendish words: ‘Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.’ These are the words of ‘eternal love.’ No human being has imagination enough to conceive of this infinite horror.” (Pg. 13)He explains, “I compared what was really known about the stars with the account of creation as told in Genesis. I found that the writer of the inspired book had no knowledge of astronomy… Does any one imagine that the author of Genesis knew anything about the sun—its size?... or that he knew anything of the clusters of stars so far away that their light, now visiting our eyes, has been traveling for two million years?... Yet millions of people insist that the writer of Genesis was inspired by the Creator of all worlds… The story is inconsistent with all known facts… I admit that this unknown writer was sincere… that he did the best he could. He did not claim to be inspired---did not pretend that the story had been told to him by Jehovah. He simply stated the ‘facts’ as he understood them.” (Pg. 21-22)He continues, “ I gave up the Old Testament on account of its mistakes, its absurdities, its ignorance and its cruelty. I gave up the New because it vouched for the truth of the Old. I gave it up on account of its miracles, its contradictions, because Christ and his disciples believe in the existence of devils---talked and made bargains with them, expelled them from people and animals.” (Pg. 25)He summarizes, “The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare’s glittering gold and gleaming gems.” (Pg. 29)He asserts, “Matter and force were not created. They have existed from eternity. They cannot be destroyed. There was, there is, no creator. Then came the question, Is there a God? Is there a being of infinite intelligence, power and goodness, who governs the world?... it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together… To me it seems infinitely cruel for life to feed on life---to create animals that devour others… Everywhere the strong living on the weak---the superior on the inferior… Murder was universal. Everywhere, pain, disease, and death… Death that takes the mother from her helpless, dimpled child---death that fills the world with grief and tears. How can the orthodox Christian explain these things?” (Pg. 41-42)He continues, “What do we think of a man who will not, when he has the power protect his friends? Yet the Christian’s God allowed his enemies to torture and burn his friends, his worshipers. Who has ingenuity enough to explain this?... If God governs the world, why is innocence not a perfect shield? Why does injustice triumph? Who can answer these questions? In answer, the intelligent, honest man must say: I do not know.” (Pg. 43-44)He summarizes, “I do not deny. I do not know---but I do not believe. I believe that the natural is supreme---that from the infinite chain no link can be lost or broken---that there is no supernatural power that can answer prayer---no power that worship can persuade or change---no power that cares for man… Is there a God? I do not know. Is man immortal? I do not know. One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be. We wait and hope.” (Pg. 47-48)He concludes, “Let us be true to ourselves---true to the facts we know, and let us, above all things, preserve the veracity of our souls. If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow-men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend. We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. We can tell the truth, and enjoy the blessed freedom that the brave have won. We can destroy the monsters of superstition, the hissing snakes of ignorance and fear… We can flood our years with sunshine---with the divine climate of kindness, and we can drain to the last drop the golden cup of joy.” (Pg. 50)This lecture will be of great interest to Freethinkers, Skeptics, Agnostics and Atheists.

Again, really great thinker and reasoner. To me, he ranks right up there with great thinkers of Greece and Rome.

Directly to the point. No wishy washy back and forth philosophy. Ingersoll is making no excuses for his radical views considering when this was written. Very refreshing point of view!

Well written - very clear and non agressive.

good read.

Amazing that this was written in the 1800's.

This is a very well written explanation of a truly great man's reasoning for being an Agnostic. Very engaging!Mike Smith.

Great!

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