10/30/2025

I know of no philosophical theist who does not agree with Ingersoll that the God of the Pentateuch is “a false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain, and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, and changeable, infamous and hideous … .”

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener