The writers of the New Testament seem to have thought that the world was about coming to an end. This world was to be sacrificed absolutely to the next. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

The writers of the New Testament seem to have thought that the world was about coming to an end. This world was to be sacrificed absolutely to the next.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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