"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery." ― Robert Green Ingersoll Topic(s): Religion More From Robert Green Ingersoll "Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity." "I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not." "If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn’t pay Smith." More In Religion "I think it’s perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion."― Dean Koontz "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."― Baruch Spinoza "I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."― Peter Jennings