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    Hell Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation
    Hell Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation
    Hell Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation
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    Hell Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation

    By Robert Green Ingersoll

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Hell Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation - Robert Green Ingersoll

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      Title: Hell

             Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation

      Author: Robert G. Ingersoll

      Release Date: October 10, 2011 [EBook #37699]

      Last Updated: January 25, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HELL ***

      Produced by David Widger

      HELL

      WARM WORDS ON THE CHEERFUL AND COMFORTING DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL DAMNATION FROM COL INGERSOLL'S AMERICAN SECULAR LECTURES

      By Col. Robert G. Ingersoll

      Minister Of The Gospel Of Free Thought In America

      Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER says:—I admire Ingersoll because he is not afraid to speak what he honestly thinks, and I am only sorry he does not think as I do. I never heard so much brilliancy and pith put into a two hours' Speech as I did on that night. I wish my whole Congregation had been there to hear it. I regard him as one of the greatest Men of the Age.—New York Herald.

      HELL.

      THE idea of a hell was born of revenge and brutality on the one side, and cowardice on the other. In my judgment the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. I have no respect for any human being who believes in it. I have no respect for any man who preaches it. I have no respect for the man who will pollute the imagination of childhood with that infamous lie. I have no respect for the man who will add to the sorrows of this world with the frightful dogma. I have no respect for any man who endeavours to put that infinite cloud, that infinite shadow, over the heart of humanity.

      For a good many years the learned intellects of Christendom have been examining into the religions of other countries in the world, the religions of the thousands that have passed away. They examined into the religions of Egypt, the religion of Greece, the religion of Rome and of the Scandinavian countries. In the presence of the ruins of those religions the learned men of Christendom insisted that those religions were baseless, that they were fraudulent. But they have all passed away. While this was being done the Christianity of our day applauded, and when the learned men got through with the religions of other countries they turned their attention to our religion. By the same mode of reasoning, by the same methods, by the same arguments that they used with the old religions, they were overturning the religion of our day. Why? Every religion in this world is the work of man. Every book has been written by man. Men existed before the books. If books had existed before man, I might admit there was such a thing as a sacred volume. Man never had an idea—man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature. You can imagine an animal with the hoof of

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