Featured content – Robert G. Ingersoll’s Crimes Against Criminals (1891)

From "Crimes Against Criminals," by Robert Green Ingersoll, "It has been said that there are three pests of a community: a priest without charity, a doctor without knowledge, and a lawyer without a sense of justice."
Politics is
not religion

Religion is politics
it’s Politics about
the unknown

Hello Beautiful Community,

Let me introduce myself and explain what I’m doing here.

I used to be a Christian. From homeschooling through Bible college, I got the best Christian education financial aid could afford, and I was a sincere believer until the end.

This website has two purposes:

  1. to show why I think that was a bad idea
  2. to stimulate better ideas instead

Content catalog

How I became a Christian & how I stopped

A personal eulogy of Michael Crichton

Quotes from Robert Green Ingersoll

The Devil
(1899)

Superstition
(1898)

The Truth
(1897)

The Religious Belief of Abraham Lincoln
(1896)
coming soon

The Foundations of Faith
(1895)
coming soon

Should the Chinese
Be Excluded?
(1893)
coming soon

A Christmas
Sermon
(1891)
NEW

A Few Reasons for Doubting the Inspiration of the Bible
(1889)
coming soon

God in the Constitution
(1887)
coming soon

The Trial of C.B. Reynolds for Blasphemy
(1887)
coming soon

The Divided Household of Faith
(1887)
coming soon

Some Live Topics
(1884)
coming soon

The Oath Question
(1884)
coming soon

Which Way?
(1884)

Address on the Civil Rights Act
(1883)
coming soon

Orthodoxy
(1880)

The Ghosts
(1877)

My Reviewers Reviewed (1877)
coming soon

The Gods
(1872)
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Progress
(1860)

Presidential campaign speeches
– Grant (1868)
– Hayes (1876)
– Garfield (1880)
coming soon

Miscellaneous
(1860-1899)
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