The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-04-01
Some ofIngersoll's utterauces

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Col. Robt.a g. Ingersoll lectured in
Detroit las Sunday night, toda very
large ,e audience. His lecture was
entitled; "Some Words of Man
About the Word Of ,God." and the
Free Press gives the following as
some ofihis Ultra utterances: 'a Fl
al would rather be happy at the
last moment Of my life than at any
her."ssimmo9 lSiJ 1ssslo mo
7 "Is it possible that if an infdel has
been honest all his life he will upon
his death bed, regret that he has not
lived q lie?" ,l,.g 81 IN s
"Thc cross never triumphed until it
went in partnership with the sword,
never" .sff IA, ,,9t6 ,... u, :.
..Where any man has told his hon
est thought, the harpies are there with
their snaky hair, 100 .,a,, Is
"Think of God giving a man brains
and then making il crime to reason I
"The Church hates a moral un-
believer a thousand times worse than
it does an immoral one" "a
whenever pronounce the name
of Voltaire | feel as though l saw some
glorious leader of the host calling on
the beleagured city of Superstition for
immediate surrender gtainnl1y 80 b,
isq"I like Voltaire. because he carried
the torch of Reason. L like him be-
cause he loved humanity and despised
superstition with all his heart" I
y. "Tom Paine wrote for the first time
these words THE United States Of
America r." aH 'h'
IA minister told me once, that IL l.
did not believe the Bible | ought not
to say SO. l asked him il he believed
It. He said he did. / told him l
didn't know whether he did or not, for
aman whowould advise anotherito lie
might lie himself. And / shall die
without ever knowing whether that
man believes the Bible or not" a
J. a''Acoording to the best Of Christians,
a man is totally depraved.l II man
is totally depraved, then all his acts
are sinful" .s1,d -sspd9 lpoy
Anything is sin that causes in
nocence to suffer. Anything is sin
that causes unhappiness in this world.
Everything is right that tends to make
man happy" fei'aI ,'h 9
"I can't sin sgainst God, because |
cannot affect His happiness" !" a la 4
mo man on earth controls the wind
that fills the sails of that ship called
himself."Dloss gafb lsil rs9i IN q
According to this great scheme
christianity the innocent suffer for
the guilty" ~ ~ {'''' $40 q"
"What must be the social standing
Of gentleman in Heaven who admits
that he would never have got there if
he hadn't been sacred?" 'p'''%
II say that every man is the
architect Of his own destiny so far as
happiness springing from human action
is concerned,,.', bns.il .ng.t4pO y
"My doctrine, is that if Ibgo. to
Heaven-and I probably shall ifthcre
is one-no matter in what star l may
be spending the summer, and there
meet a man whom j have wronged
and read the story in his eyes, shall
fall behind a little in the tune; Iwon'
be quite 50 lively with my harp as
was" i jsr sia.u va i,otI
su.IfI Igo to hell. nomatter how hot j,
is, and there remember some good ant
splendid thing that / have done-- --th,
hunger | have fed--the nakedness
have clothed ~ believe it will cool up
on me a, little.n os,.''' 6 .,i'.l ~, ~, F.
= "The trouble with the atonement is
that it saves the wrong man., ',.ssg.
"How does the murderer in Heaven
feel with his yictimin in hell? Ifh
| was augentleman he'd trade places
with himp ,3un leh Wgt q mnll ,
ti'Now they say that the persons who
never heard Of the scheme Of salvation
tho heathen--will go to heaven
Why, 0 God! II there is one, did 70,
not keep US all in Ignorance Of th'
scheme. that we might all be saved?'
a"This Word Of God; has filled tn,
human mind with horror 1t ha'
petri6ed human hearts. "il ,sa9ur3
"l'll never worship God that feedl
| lions on babes.'' ulgiuM e1trs
N"I'd rather stand at the judgmen
bar of God and tell him that l disbe
lieved all the horrible things in hi
Word than, to believe them, II
rather tell Him that ! believed Hin
charitable and just and not q mur
derer.1 oauo sls ''iW is9p liip ed
II cannot believe that God uphel'
slavery andpolygamy; that He toll
lmen to kill women; that He CAV
1 young girls to the lust Of soldiers; AM
\ ;fIs,, darn mad for fhss all r;oht ~