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  • ...in every religion the priest insists on five things -
    First: There is a God.
    Second: He has made known his will.
    Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
    Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
    Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”