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  1. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

       Only the other day a gentleman was telling me of a case of special Providence. He knew it. He had been the subject of it. A few years ago he was about to go on a ship, when he was detained. He did not go, and the ship was lost with all on board.
       “Yes,” I said, ” Do you think the people who were drowned believed in special Providence?” Think of the infinite egotism of such a doctrine. Here is a man that fails to go upon a ship with 500 passengers, and they go down to the bottom of the sea — fathers, mothers, children, and loving husbands and wives waiting upon the shores of expectation. Here is one poor little wretch that did not happen to go! And he thinks that God, the Infinite Being, interfered in his poor little withered behalf and let the rest all go. That is special Providence!

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado

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  2. A quotation from Montaigne

    I was wondering recently how the error arose which leads us to have recourse to God in all our doings and designs, calling upon him in every kind of need and in any place whatsoever where our weakness needs support, without once considering whether the occasion is just or unjust. No matter how we are or what we are doing — however sinful it may be — we invoke God’s name and power.
     
    [J’avoy presentement en la pensée, d’où nous venoit cett’ erreur, de recourir à Dieu en tous nos desseins & entreprises, & l’appeller à toute sorte de besoing, & en quelque lieu que nostre foiblesse veut de l’aide, sans considerer si l’occasion est juste ou injuste ; & d’escrier son nom, & sa puissance, en quelque estat, & action que nous soyons, pour vitieuse qu’elle soit.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 56 (1.56), “Of Prayers [Des prieres]” (1572-1580) [tr. Screech (1987)]

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  3. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
    Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

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  4. A quotation from Shakespeare

    KING RICHARD: Not all the water in the rough rude sea
       Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.
       The breath of worldly men cannot depose
       The deputy elected by the Lord.
       For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
       To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
       God for His Richard hath in heavenly pay
       A glorious angel. Then, if angels fight,
       Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 55ff (3.2.55) (1595)

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  6. 🎩🙌 "The Almighty Audition: Because clearly, God has nothing better to do than referee sports matches and job interviews." 🙏⚽📈 When everyone thinks THEY have the VIP pass to divine intervention, it’s a miracle the universe hasn’t imploded from all the entitlement. 🚀✨
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