Words from Robert Ingersoll - 1

A new occasional series - quotes from Col. R.G. Ingersoll's 44 Lectures Complete: enjoy!

Now they say that [the Bible] is inspired. I do not care whether it is or not; the question is, Is it true? If it is true, it don't need to be inspired. Nothing needs inspiration except a falsehood or a mistake. A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie made for the express purpose; and, finally, someone gets tired of lying, and the last lie will not fit the next fact, and then there is a chance for inspiration. Right then and there a miracle is needed. The real question is, In the light of science, in the light of the brain and heart of the nineteenth century, is it true?

Mistakes of Moses