Vulgar words in Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I - Including His Answers to the Clergy, - His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. (Page 1)
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Some have a thousand arms, some a hundred heads, some are adorned with necklaces of living snakes, some are armed with clubs, some with sword and shield, some with bucklers, and some with wings as a cherub; some were invisible, some would show themselves entire, and some would only show their backs; some were jealous, some were foolish, some turned themselves into men, some into swans, some into bulls, some into doves, and some into holy ghosts, and made love to the beautiful daughters of men.
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They say God has a right to damn me because He made me.
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We will not burn you because you throw away the sacred scriptures; but their Author will," "We think it an infamous crime to persecute our brethren for opinion's sake; but the God whom we ignorantly worship will on that account damn his own children forever."
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Just think of God saying to people: "If you do not love Me I will damn you."
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In this way a God of infinite wisdom experimented with man, keeping him between an outstretched abyss beneath and a heaven above; and in time the man came to believe that he could please God by having read a few sacred books, could count beads, could sprinkle water, eat little square pieces of bread, and that he could shut his eyes and say words to the clouds; but the moment he left this world nothing remained except to damn him.
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He didn't believe that God so loved the world that He intended to damn most everybody.
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And, according to that, hundreds of billions and billions of years ago our fate was irrevocably and forever fixed, and God in the secret counsels of His own inscrutable will, made up His mind whom He would save and whom He would damn.
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This Presbyterian believes that billions of years before that baby in the cradle--that little dimpled child, basking in the light of a mother's smile--was born, God had made up His mind to damn it; and when Talmage looks at one of those children who will probably be damned he is cheerful about it; he enjoys it.
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You recollect the gods came down and made love to the daughters of men--and I never blamed them for it.
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Is it a compliment to an infinite God to say that every being He ever made deserved to be damned the minute He got him done, and that He will damn everybody He has not had a chance to make over.
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Let every man try to make every day a joy, and God cannot afford to damn such a man.
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This man, it may be, had committed the crime of saying, with tears upon his cheeks, "I do not believe that God, the father of us all, will damn to eternal perdition any of the children of men."
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If there is any God in this universe who will damn his children for an expression of an honest thought I wish to go to Hell.
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I would rather go there than go to heaven and keep the company of a God that would thus damn his children.
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Are you going to damn her in the fifteenth, sixteenth or seventeenth year, when the arrow from Cupid's bow touches her heart and she is glorified--are you going to damn her now?
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Are you going to damn her now?
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When are you going to damn her?
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Are you going to damn her then?
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I tell you God can not afford to damn such a woman.
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Do you tell me God can afford to damn that kind of a woman?
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Do not imagine that there is any being who would give to his children the holy torch of reason and then damn them for following where the holy light led.
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No God could afford to damn a forgiving man.
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That He forgave the men who drove the nails in His hands, in His feet, that plunged a spear in His side; the soldier that in the hour of death offered Him in mockery the bitterness to drink; that He forgave them all freely, and that yet, although He would forgive them, He will in the nineteenth century damn to eternal fire an honest man for the expression of his honest thoughts.
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God cannot afford to damn any man that is capable of pitying anybody.
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Neither do I believe there is any God in the universe who will damn a man simply for expressing his belief.
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I am told that I must love my enemies; and will it do for this God who tells me, "Love my enemies," to say, "I will damn mine."
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They taught the doctrine that God had a right to damn us because He made us.
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That is just the reason that He has not a right to damn us.
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They will only associate with those who believed that God so loved the world that He made up his mind to damn the most of us.