Excellent thread in GD

[Zenlitened]

Robert Ingersoll 1879 lecture, "Some Mistakes of Moses."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4207006&mesg_id=4207006

100+ years ago, he was warning that the collapse of the wall between church and state would spell the end of America. :(

[progressoid]

1. That thread has 15 votes

not too shabby.

[BiggJawn]

2. That's an awesome piece.

Hope there's enough toner in the printer....

[onager]

3. Ingersoll is fucking amazing....

One of several famous atheists who came out of the Civil War, along with Ambrose Bierce and South Carolina's Confederate general Maxey Gregg. (Gregg owned a scientific library that was probably the equal of Harvard's in the mid 19th century.)

The Republicans once offered Ingersoll a shoo-in political race, if he would keep quiet about his religious non-beliefs.

Ingersoll replied that he would NOT stop talking about the essential stupiditiy of religion, even if he was offered the title "Emperor Of The World." The Repubs beat a hasty retreat--moral cowards then as now!

A couple of years ago, I was poking around in a used book store and found a hardbound collection of Ingersoll lectures, still in the original dust jacket, for something like $2.00.

I will not part with that book until my death, when I just might bequeath it to the local school library back in my home state of South Carolina...provided they never allow anyone affiliated with a Xian church to approve my bequest.

Heh!

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

4. Ingersoll was fantastic... Great thread

[GOPFighter]

5. Great reading!

We need a Robert Ingersoll "revival"! :bounce: :bounce: