Robert G. Ingersoll Against Christianity: Volume 5 Replies to Clergy

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. In this volume Ingersoll Replys to Attacks of the Clergy against his lectures. It includes the debate between Ingersoll and the Rev. Dr. Henry Field. It also includes the response by William E. Gladstone (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) to Ingersoll's replies to Dr. Field. Ingersoll replies to charges of blasphemy leveled against him by a number of clergy. He also attacks the existence of God, the doctrine of eternal punishment in hell, the idea that one man can die for the sins of another and thus cancel any punishment for those sins (Atonement), etc. Religion has been the enemy of social order, because it directs the attention of man to another world. Religion teaches its votaries to sacrifice this world for the sake of that other. The effect is to weaken the ties that hold families and States together. Of what consequence is anything in this world compared with eternal joy? - Robert G. Ingersoll, "Field-Ingersoll Debate"