Col. Robert G. Ingersoll as He Is: A Complete Refutation of His Clerical Enemies' Malicious Slanders; The Dishonest Statements Regarding Himself and ... Denied, and the Proof Given (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Col. Robert G. Ingersoll as He Is: A Complete Refutation of His Clerical Enemies' Malicious Slanders; The Dishonest Statements Regarding Himself and His Family Authoritatively Denied, and the Proof Given

Whenever Colonel Ingersoll makes a lectur ing trip through the country the clergy resort to Slander and defamation to repel attacks upon their religion which they cannot otherwise ward off. Were all people sensible, these attacks would amount to nothing. But the general run of Christians cannot see that even were Inger soll all that his enemies say he is, it would in no wise affect his arguments against Christianity, and the stories told by the clergy distract their attention and prevent them from considering what he has said. This slander business is an old trick of the ministers. Voltaire, Paine, Bradlaugh, Bennett - every prominent Free thinker - has been subjected to the same treatment. Colonel Ingersoll himself has pith ily put it.

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