Topic: Robert Ingersoll

A cultural history of vampirism

Helium - 456 days ago
A cultural history of vampirism does not describe the history of vampires. Some unfortunates, very rarely, might rise from the grave, or at least stir and struggle in their tight-wrapped shroud. Actually, soft skin shrinks away from the already dead tissues of ...

Authorship and the Science of the Bible

Suite 101 - 497 days ago
Toted as the word of God, the Bible is a book of mystery and selective inclusion created by men who wanted to mold the Christian myth in a way that would fit their misogynistic and xenophobic beliefs. John William Draper addresses the ...

Robert G Ingersoll

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 914 days ago
July 21, 1899, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.), American politician and orator known as "the great agnostic" who popularized the higher criticism of the Bible, as well as a humanistic philosophy and a scientific rationalism.. Nationally known as a lecturer, Ingersoll was in ...