Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899) on Religious Powers and The State

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(1833 - 1899)

19th-Century American Secularist, Freethinker, Union Civil War Colonel, Civil Rights Activist, and Famed Public Speaker

: Nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism. (From: Wikipedia.org.)


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Quote #6 on Religious Struggle Quotes >> Religious Powers and The State

“You might as well have a government united by force with Art, or with Poetry, or with Oratory, as with Religion. Religion should have the influence upon mankind that its goodness, that its morality, its justice, its charity, its reason, and its argument give it, and no more. Religion should have the effect upon mankind that it necessarily has, and no more. The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and curse.”

Source: "Centennial Oration," by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1876.

"Centennial Oration," by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1876.

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