WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/5678/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Ingersoll</b></a></p><blockquote>Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates? Why should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn in eternal fire? Why should a Christian be better than his God?</blockquote><p><b>Robert Green Ingersoll</b> (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator<br>Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/5678/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=afterlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>afterlife</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=churchandstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>churchandstate</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=divinejudgment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>divinejudgment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=divinepunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>divinepunishment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hell</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=heresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heresy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>salvation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=theocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theocracy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=damnation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>damnation</span></a></p>