Why I Am an Agnostic

The Great Agnostic Ingersoll doesn’t touch on all that is wrong with the Old and New Testaments, but he crams as many fallacies as possible in his allotment of 78 pages. on godly benevolence “They knew all about the flood. They knew that God, with the exception of about eight people, drowned all his......more

Written in the 1800s but still appropriate for today. Some may think fundamental Christianity such as Ingersoll described is long gone, but live in Oklahoma for a day and you’d think there is no other form of Christianity.......more

This was a fascinating and fast read. Ingersoll was a master orator and his lecture was insightful and moving. I could summarize it with this quote from his lecture. "We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not kno......more

A good lecture from an author new to me. I look forward to reading many of his others. I didn't read this exact text, but rather the version contained in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Dresden Edition, Volume 4 (C.P. Farrell, 1900; Dresden Publishing Company, 1901) from Archive.org: [URL not allowed]......more

A fairly interesting treatise, given by a renowned Atheist-leaning agnostic (and enemy of organized religion) from the 19th century. Most of his arguments for rejecting organized religion seem rather weak and one-sided—but a decent portion of this can be pretty easily forgiven, considering the time......more