Vulgar words in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews (Page 1)
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In that State they simply fine and imprison a man for expressing his honest thoughts; and yet, if the churches are right, God will damn a man forever for the same offence.
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Lansing knows that he must have the right to slander a man whom God is to eternally damn.
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If God can afford to damn such a man, such a man can afford to be damned.
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If a ship going down the river strikes a snag, or encounters a storm, a cry goes up against the captain.
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And what would we think of a God now who would damn a man eighteen hundred years after the event, because he did not believe that he was God at the time he was living in Jerusalem; not only damn the fellows that he met and who did not believe him, but gentlemen who lived eighteen hundred years afterward, and who certainly could have known nothing of the facts except from hearsay?
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This fear began to grow while they were being rocked in their cradles, and they still imagine that the church has some mysterious power; that it is in direct communication with some infinite personality that could, if it desired, strike then dead, or damn their souls forever.
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The man who said God will damn nearly everybody, was orthodox.
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At any rate, their minds were so constructed that they conceived of an infinite being who, billions of years before the world was, made up his mind as to whom he would save and whom he would damn.
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He no longer claims the right to damn us because he made us.