WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:05:46 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg deities – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Ingersoll, Robert Green -- Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/79938/ https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/79938/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:27:10 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=79938 Nothing is so pleasing to these gods as the butchery of unbelievers. Nothing so enrages them, even now, as to have some one deny their existence.


Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

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