Ingersoll Missed The Point

Robert G. Ingersoll was an educated man. He was an orator and American political leader who was born in 1833 and died in 1899. He was also an atheist. He seemed to have something against Christians and Christianity. He was relentless in his attacks against them. His disagreements were passionate. He was a wordsmith. The irony about his point of view is that because of Christianity, he made a great deal of money. He would fill auditoriums with paying customers who were there to hear his rants against the existence of God. I think he missed the point about the truth. Passion does not create the truth, but it (truth) can sure cause it. The following is a quote from one of his speeches............ "All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth."