Meet the Most Remarkable American Most People Never Heard of

[WarVideo]

Theres a Rupublican I can vote for, lets dig him up and run him for president. How bad could a bag of bones do compared to the idiots running now?

[ChipMidnight]

Ingersoll's speeches and can be read online. I highly recommend them to anyone who hasn't read them. He was truly a brilliant and eloquent man and well worth your time.

[ChadMaestrodotcom]

Your voices sound so much like... TheThinkingAtheist.

[heismark]

Ingersoll is probably the single most speaker for modern thinking. Way, way ahead of his time.

[funnytothemoontube]

We do a show to honor Robert Green Ingersoll ever Sunday!

[EastofForever]

welll doggies!...isn't that something?

they've got a little house museum for the little atheist!

[bodeezy]

Ingersoll is one of my heroes...thanks for posting this. It's too bad it still has such a low view count.

[StealthGoblin1]

Lewis Wallace wrote Ben-Hur in reaction to his meeting with Robert Ingersoll.

[Largo64]

It is worth noting that, when Ingersoll died, he was eulogized by one of America's most renowned ministers, Henry Ward Beecher. Even though Ingersoll decried the terrible effects of religion on his country, one of religion's noted practitioners respected and even admired him.

[Largo64]

One reason so few Americans know about Ingersoll is that, especially in conservative counties, an entire library system may have no book by or even about Ingersoll. This is not censorship exactly, but by choosing not to shelve books about Ingersoll, it is as effective as censoring. In San Bernardino County in California when I lived there, I could find "Mein Kampf" on the shelf, while the speeches of Ingersoll were not even in the stacks. But then Hitler said he was a Christian.

[sciencedoggy]

Heh, same birthday as me :)

Awesome!

[natmanprime]

marlon brando!!

[PeelingMyBanana]

Thank You for this fantastic and informative video! What a great man this Robert Green Ingersoll was.

//The Hungarian

[stratocaster539]

Let us not forget him.

[ridelo]

How different America - and the world - could have been had they paid more attention to this man. It's not too late.

[k9a2g6]

Where are the Ingersoll's today,we can use a voice like his to get us back on the right path of REASON and LOGIC !!!

[blazereef]

@k9a2g6 i know an ingersoll, do any of his close relatives live today?

[Archaenum]

No wonder Americans have never heard of him - he rejected the inculcated dogma that still corrupts American minds. It boggles the mind that a wealthy Western nation continues, despite Bush's disastrous reign, to regard the various ramifications of free thought as dirty words. Any nation that remains excessively enthralled by fundamentalist religion is doomed in the modern world - Islamic nations demonstrate this.

[1APost]

What a well made video! I recently moved to Corning, NY and hope to make the short trip up to Dresden soon. I'm just waiting for my Girlfriend to finish reading "Freethinkers" to make the trip. Can't wait!

[durstwurst]

Interesting man, I won't forget his name and will tell others about him.

[DoctorE0]

Religion = for selfish slaves

[tecnoblix]

I'm so grateful to the internet and to YouTube. Without these tools great men and free thinkers like these would never get the respect and credit they deserve.

[tehinfidel]

Hooray, thank you for highlighting this wonderful American of the much-overlooked freethought movement movement.

With the current and transparent attempt of historical revisionism by declaring the obviously secular US as a Christian nation, it is important to remember and honor the true citizens which kept our country noteworthy throughout the last 2 centuries.

I hope you consider making this the beginning of a series.

[tehinfidel]

-movement

[camino1ca]

Ingersoll rocks

[XxLuciferousxX]

So, Im guessing the reason why I never learned of him in school was because he was atheist.

[freedom0f5peech]

I love Ingersoll !!!

[Rorty00]

I checked out the book. Here's an amaizing quote: "We do not expect to accomplish everything in our day; but we wan to do what good we can, and to render all the services possible in the holy cause of human progress. We know that doing away with gods and supernatural persons and powers is not an end. It is a means to the end; the real end being the happiness of man."

[dfarmer1584]

nice video.

*off topic*

Perhaps this channel can tell me why Point of Inquiry, the WEEKLY podcast of the Center for Inquiry, is soooooo far behind (at least several weeks at the moment)? Is DJ Grothe taking a break?

Finally, is there anything POI's devoted listeners can do to help get the show back on the road?

Anyway...

Ya! Ingersoll!

[akaso405]

great topic, but painfully slow

[Rorty00]

I'm looking up a book of speeches and such at my school's library as I watch to this. Thanks CFI.

[jessie74]

Awesome!

Everyone should know about Robert G. Ingersoll.