In popular culture Robert G. Ingersoll

ingersoll statue in peoria, illinois.



in devil s dictionary american journalist , writer ambrose bierce included own version of decalogue in second commandment is, no images nor idols make/for robert ingersoll break.
in a.b. simpson s 1890 book, wholly sanctified, prominent new york city pastor , founder of christian , missionary alliance writes of wanting read ingersoll s lectures idea of answering them, repulsed after reading 1 page dared not go farther. simpson referred ingersoll daring blasphemer.
in william faulkner s short story beyond old man leaves body @ moment of death , visits sort of ante-purgatory encounters shade of man may robert ingersoll. old man accosts ingersoll, reconciled . . . place. ingersoll replies, ah . . . reconciled.
in sherwood anderson s 1920 novel poor white, robert ingersoll came [a small midwest town] speak . . ., , after had gone question of divinity of christ months occupied minds of citizens.
in sinclair lewis s 1927 novel elmer gantry, burly college student named elmer gantry influenced agnostic friend jim lefferts undergoes seeming miraculous conversion baptist christianity , invited speak before audience. @ lefferts suggestion, gantry uses inspiration first sermon speech robert ingersoll commences, love bow on life s dark cloud . gantry decides not credit ingersoll, infamous audience, , reflects, rats! chances nobody there tonight has ever read ingersoll. agin him. besides ll kind of change around.
in lewis grassic gibbon s 1932 novel sunset song, character long rob said follower of ingersoll s work (though narrator confuses him watchmaker robert hawley ingersoll).
in ruth sawyer s 1936 novel roller skates, central character lucinda goes ingersoll s house on thanksgiving day attend performance of play.
in james joyce s ulysses, american evangelist proclaims, can rub shoulders jesus, gautama, ingersoll.
in david foster wallace s infinite jest , enfield tennis academy student named evan ingersoll. 11-year-old, , being underclassman, engenders dislike. during game of eschaton ingersoll launches tennis balls @ real-world targets, innovative idea nod evan , robert s paralleled philosophies of thinking outside-the-box.
the town of redwater, texas, named ingersoll in honor of robert ingersoll when founded during mid-1870s; current name adopted after revival meeting held in town during 1886.
ingersoll s after visiting tomb of napoleon quoted in born yesterday.
in p. g. wodehouse s book mating season, pc dobbs, happens fervent agnostic/atheist, left county talent show @ local hall because didn t entertainment , went home smoke pipe , read robert g. ingersoll .
colonel bob mountain in washington state named robert ingersoll.
his birthplace, known robert ingersoll birthplace, or robert green ingersoll birthplace museum, listed on national register of historic places in 1988.
the following ingersoll statement quoted on inside cover of godley , creme album consequences:


there in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there consequences.


ingersoll s type of agnosticism labelled ingersollism intellectual contemporaries, including congregationalist lyman abbott, congregationalist minister john p. sanderson, illinois scholar , lawyer george reuben wendling , others (such collection of refutations of ingersollism published during 1879 chicago publishers rhodes , mcclure).
in g. k. chesterton s short story, resurrection of father brown , robert ingersoll, referred ingersoll, referenced example of type of atheism cherished austere , choleric american reporter, saul snaith: ... regarded organized religion conventional contempt can learnt more ingersoll voltaire.
a quote robert g. ingersoll included in 2007 documentary peter joseph: zeitgeist: movie. quote: religion can never reform mankind, because religion slavery.
during july 2016 ingersoll s statue in peoria, illinois restored successful fundraising effort freedom religion foundation.




^ simpson, albert benjamin, wholly sanctified: living life empowered holy spirit., (camp hill, pennsylvania: wingspread publishers, 2006) pages 45–46. first published during 1890.
^ faulkner, william. selected stories of william faulkner modern library, 1993, pp.276–277
^ james joyce, ulysses , random house, 1986, p. 414.
^ majors, harry m. (1975). exploring washington. van winkle publishing co. p. 72. isbn 978-0-918664-00-6. 
^ national park service (2009-03-13). national register information system . national register of historic places. national park service. 
^ abbott, lyman (1890). flaws in ingersollism . north american review. 150 (401): 446–457. jstor 25101967. 
^ association, michigan congregational (2 december 1892). congregational churches of michigan: first fifty years of organization state association ; addresses delivered, papers read , reports made @ jubilee meeting held @ jackson, may 19-22, 1892 . order of association. retrieved 2 december 2017 – via google books. 
^ wendling, george reuben (2 december 1883). ingersollism: secular point of view. lecture delivered in association hall, new york; music hall, boston; in philadelphia, chicago, st. louis, , in on 6 hundred of principal lecture courses of united states , canada . jansen, mcclurg. retrieved 2 december 2017 – via google books. 
^ james baird mcclure (2 december 1879). mistakes of ingersoll: shown rev. w. f. crafts, bishop charles e .. rhodes & mcclure. retrieved 2 december 2017 – via internet archive. 
^ renken, leslie. ingersoll statue restored ffrf . freedom religion foundation. peoria journal star. retrieved 24 october 2016.