Robert Green Ingersoll
1896
"For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
"Environment is a sculptor -- a painter.
"If we had been born in Constantinople, the most of us would have said: "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet." If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana."
Positive Atheism
Excerpt from:Why I Am an Agnostic
Clarence Darrow
[1857 - 1938]
"An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. Everyone is an agnostic as to the beliefs or creeds they do not accept."
Infidels Library
Who is Clarence Darrow?
by Prof. Douglas Linder
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial
by Prof. Douglas Linder
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