Strange! that a world cursed by God, filled with temptations and thick with fiends, should be the only place where hope exists, the only place where man can repent, the only place where reform is possible! Strange! that heaven, filled with angels and presided over by God, is the only place where reformation is utterly impossible! Yet these are the teachings of all the believers in the eternity of punishment.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator

Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York City
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