id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 38107 Ingersoll, Robert Green The Gods From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' .txt text/plain 16878 826 73 of war, because the bible is the word of God. As a matter of fact, there be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. become as gods, knowing good and evil." For this reason, religion Man, in his# ignorance, supposed that all phenomena were produced by to conceive of a god utterly unlike himself, and he naturally supposed supposed influence with the gods, made of his fellow-man a cringing This belief in good and evil powers had its origin in the fact that man nations, the gods still interfere; but in prize fights, the best man of interference by the gods in this age of the world, still thinks, of cause and effect, proves the existence of a power superior to nature. Of what use have the gods been to man? Would an infinitely wise, good and powerful God, intending to produce ./cache/38107.txt ./txt/38107.txt