Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
“Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and suppose that afterward this same God took upon himself flesh, and came to this very chosen people and taught a different religion, and that thereupon the Jews crucified him; I ask you, did he not reap exactly what he had sown? What right would this god have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?”
( Robert Green Ingersoll, “Some Mistakes Of Moses,” 1879; from The Works of Robert Ingersoll, vol. II, New York: The Ingersoll League, 1933, p. 259. )
