If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children, and poisoned the imaginations of men.

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

Lecture (1877-01-31) “The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child,” Case Hall, Boston
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