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56      THE GODS

A Lecture Delivered by Robert G. Ingersoll
in 1872

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of the existence of a god. No one infers a god
from the simple, from the known, from what is
understood, but from the complex, from the un-
known, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is
God;  what we know is science.

When we abandon the doctrine that some
infinite being created matter and force, and en-
acted-a code of laws for their government, the
idea of interference will be lost. The real priest
will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pre-
tended deity, but the interpreter of nature.
>From that moment the church ceases to exist.

The tapers will die out upon the dusty altar;
the moths will eat the fading velvet of pulpit
and pew; the Bible will take its place with the
Shastras, Puranas, Vedas, Eddas, Sagas and
Korans, and the fetters of a degrading faith will
fall from the minds of men.

" But," says the religionist, " you cannot ex-
plain everything; you cannot understand every-
thing ; and that which you cannot explain, that
which you do not comprehend, is my God."
We are explaining more every day. We are
understanding more every day ; consequently
your God is growing smaller every day.

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1997
Emmett F. Fields
Reproduced in electronic form
1997
Bank of Wisdom
P.O. Box 926
Louisville, KY 40201

The Bank of Wisdom grants permission!
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll are so needed by the
American people today that the Bank of Wisdom does hereby
grant permission for Ingersoll's Works to be copied and
given away, but NOT SOLD.

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Posted by Robert E. Nordlander
no…@juno.com

To: alt.atheism, soc.misc,

June 5, 1998

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