This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new th… - Robert Green Ingersoll

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

I do not believe in forgiveness as it is preached by the church. We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves. If I rob Mr. Smith and God forgives me, how does that help Smith? If I, by slander, cover some poor girl with the leprosy of some imputed crime, and she withers away like a blighted flower and afterward I get the forgiveness of God, how does that help her? If there is another world, we have got to settle with the people we have wronged in this. No bankrupt court there. Every cent must be paid.

The great argument made by Cosmas to show that the earth must be flat, was the fact that the Bible stated that when Christ should come the second time, in glory, the whole world should see him. “Now,” said Cosmas, “if the world is round, how could the people on the other side see the Lord when he comes?” This settled the question.

In the pulpit, hypocrites have been worshiped; upon the stage they have been held up to derision and execration.