Excerpt from Review of Colonel R. G. Ingersoll's Attacks Upon Christianity It never Injures the truth permanently; By Its intrinsic value the latter always rises eventually above perversion, misapprehension and slander, whether they proceed from hostility or are due to a want of familiarity with the truths in question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Freethinker Library is a collection of books of interest to freethinkers, humanists, atheists, feminists, and political progressives. They were written between 1870 and 1915. The FT Library includes a seven volume collection on religion by Robert G. Ingersoll as well as books by Thomas Paine, Voltairine de Cleyre, M. Ricker, J. McCabe, and others. These works are highly critical of Christianity, the Bible, and sexism. "Robert G. Ingersoll Against Christianity," contains 6 critical volumes on religion by the famous Freethinker and the biography of the orator by Herman E. Kittredge. Robert G. Ingersoll's works are a scathing analysis of Christianity and the Bible. Part 1 discusses the myth of the infallible and divinely inspired Bible. Ingersoll states that Christianity is the enemy of social order and of progress and that it teaches it is better to love God than your wife or husband. Also included is Ingersoll's famous lecture, "Some Mistakes of Moses." Part 2 includes the Ingersoll-Rev.Talmage Debate: The freethinker debates the highly influential Reverend Talmage on the Old Testament. Here we find out that plants may have flourished before the sun was created due to the light from volcanic activity, starlight etc. The all-knowledgeable Lord went through all the animals looking for a helpmate for Adam before figuring out that Eve was preferable to a camel. The snake walked on its tail! Before Adam and Eve sinned, predators did not kill and eat animals. Two of all the animals, birds, insects, etc., in the world fit into Noah's Ark.We are compelled to admit that nothing could be more attractive to a woman than a snake walking erect, with a "spotted, dappled skin," unless it were a serpent with wings. Is it not humiliating to know that our ancestors believed these things? Why should we object to the Darwinian doctrine of descent after this? "Some Mistakes of Moses" -- The Fall.

Robert G. Ingersoll's works are a scathing analysis of Christianity and the Bible. Volume 1, Part 1 traces the long journey of humanity from superstitious supernatural religion to reason, science and progress. Part 2 points out, however, that the struggle is not finished. Today the Religious Right attacks schools for teaching Darwin. In the 19th-century people were arrested for pointing out that the Bible is not infallible. Ingersoll defends Mr. Reynolds who was charged with this blasphemy. The orator's address to the jury is given. "Whoever has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty of heresy.... The church persecutes the living and her God burns the dead." - Heretics and Heresies "I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any church, of any State, to put a padlock on the lips - to make the tongue a convict. I passionately deny the right of the Herod of authority to kill the children of the brain." - The Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy