According to the Bible, the apostles were ordered to go into all the world and preach the gospel-yet not one of them, nor one of their converts at any time, nor one of the vicars of God, for fifteen hundred years afterward, knew of the existence of the Western Hemisphere. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

According to the Bible, the apostles were ordered to go into all the world and preach the gospel-yet not one of them, nor one of their converts at any time, nor one of the vicars of God, for fifteen hundred years afterward, knew of the existence of the Western Hemisphere.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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