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They say the religion of your fathers is good enough. Why should a father object to your inventing a better plow than he had? They say to me, do you know more than all the theologians dead? Being a perfectly modest man I say I think I do. Now we have come to the conclusion that every man has a right to think. Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
 By: | Robert G. Ingersoll (more quotes by Robert G. Ingersoll or books by/about Robert G. Ingersoll) |
| (1833-1899) American lawyer, Civil War veteran, political leader, orator of United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, nicknamed "The Great Agnostic" |
Source: | Speech on 'Religious Intolerance' as presented at the Pittsburgh Opera House, (October 14, 1879) |
Categories: | Belief, Custom, Free Thought, Integrity, Religion, Truth, Children |
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