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Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from a lecture delivered by Robert Ingersoll

at the McVickers Theatre in Chicago, September 19, 1880.

For many years, I have spoken out against the harmful creeds of Orthodox Christians

who wish to replenish the fires of hell,

whom aline the human race is born depraved,

who lift up the theology of Calvin,

and who kneel to a God who has accepted the agony of the innocent,

as an atonement for the guilty.

Orthodox and evangelical preachers often say to me,

What do you propose?

You have torn this down. What do you propose to give us in its place?

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