"I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity."

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In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the Old Testament. It is only when we discard the idea of a deity, the idea of cruelty or goodness in nature, that we are able ever to bear with patience the ills of life. I feel that I am neither a favorite nor a victim. Nature neither loves nor hates me.

— Robert Green Ingersoll