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Article: Ingersoll on children and morality. (Robert Green Ingersoll) (Do Children Need Religion?) (Cover Story)
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Throughout his career, the great nineteenth-century freethinker Robert Green Ingersoll discussed religion and morality. He also addressed the related issue of religious and moral instruction for children. He argued that no necessary connection exists between religion and morality, that the teaching of the church will not produce moral behavior in children, and that we instruct our children most effectively with the example of our own lives. Ingersoll's statements on these subjects speak for themselves.
Repeatedly, Ingersoll stressed the lack of connection between religion and morality:
* Religion and morality have nothing in common and yet there is no ...