In a then-famous 1888 deputation with the English Cardinal Henry E. Manning, Robert Ingersoll wrote It may be sufficient to say that there is no crime that man can commit that has not been committed by the vicars of Christ... Among the popes there were probably some good men, this would have happened even if the intention had been to get all bad men, for the reason that man reaches perfection neither in good nor in evil; but if they were selected by Christ himself, if they were selected by a church with a divine origin and under divine guidance, then there is no way to account for the selection of a bad one. If one hypocrite was duly elected pope - one murderer - one strangler - one starver - this demonstrates that all popes were selected by men, and by men only, and that the claim of divine guidance is born of zeal and uttered without knowledge Just finished the rivetting biography of The Great Agnostic Robert G Ingersoll - all yours now, Emma, will post it within the next few days
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:08:51 +0000
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