Topic
Religion & Belief
Lectures, debates, and replies on God, the Bible, the church, and the rational basis (or lack thereof) of religious claims.
| Work | Volume | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Gods An Honest God is the Noblest Work of Man | Vol. 1 | 1872 |
| Individuality "His Soul was like a Star and dwelt apart." | Vol. 1 | 1873 |
| Heretics and Heresies Liberty, a Word without which all other Words are Vain | Vol. 1 | 1874 |
| Centennial Oration Peoria, Illinois, July 4, 1876. | Vol. 9 | 1876 |
| The Ghosts Let them cover their eyeless sockets with their fleshless hands and fade forever from the imagination of men. | Vol. 1 | 1877 |
| My Reviewers Reviewed A reply to the clergymen of San Francisco. | Vol. 7 | 1877 |
| Convention of the National Liberal League Cincinnati, September 14, 1878. | Vol. 12 | 1878 |
| Robert Burns The peasant poet of Scotland. | Vol. 3 | 1878 |
| A Wooden God On the deification of the Bible. | Vol. 11 | 1879 |
| My Chicago Bible Class A reply published in the Chicago Times, 1879. | Vol. 7 | 1879 |
| Some Mistakes of Moses He who endeavors to control the mind by force is a tyrant, and he who submits is a slave. | Vol. 2 | 1879 |
| Brooklyn Speech Brooklyn Academy of Music, introduced by Henry Ward Beecher. | Vol. 9 | 1880 |
| What Must We Do To Be Saved? A close reading of the four gospels. | Vol. 1 | 1880 |
| Some Reasons Why Why religion makes enemies, why inspiration is a fiction, and why the morality of the heathen exceeded that of the prophets. | Vol. 2 | 1881 |
| The Christian Religion A discussion with Jeremiah S. Black. | Vol. 6 | 1881 |
| The Great Infidels The Infidels of one age have been the aureoled saints of the next. | Vol. 3 | 1881 |
| A Reply to Rev. Drs. Thomas and Lorimer McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, Nov. 26, 1882. | Vol. 7 | 1882 |
| Six Interviews on Talmage A reply to the Reverend Thomas De Witt Talmage of Brooklyn. | Vol. 5 | 1882 |
| The Talmagian Catechism A shorter catechism, drawn from the sermons of Mr. Talmage. | Vol. 5 | 1882 |
| The Brooklyn Divines Replies to clergy interviewed by the Brooklyn Union. | Vol. 7 | 1883 |
| To the Indianapolis Clergy Answers to the ministers of Indianapolis. | Vol. 7 | 1883 |
| Orthodoxy A lecture. | Vol. 2 | 1884 |
| A Lay Sermon Delivered before the American Secular Union. | Vol. 4 | 1885 |
| Myth and Miracle Happiness is the true end and aim of life. | Vol. 2 | 1885 |
| Rev. Dr. Newton's Sermon on a New Religion Reply to a sermon. | Vol. 11 | 1886 |
| Secularism Essay. | Vol. 11 | 1887 |
| The Field–Ingersoll Discussion Faith or Agnosticism. | Vol. 6 | 1887 |
| A Tribute to Henry Ward Beecher Memorial tribute to the great American preacher. | Vol. 12 | 1887 |
| Address to the Actors' Fund of America New York, June 5, 1888. | Vol. 12 | 1888 |
| The Ingersoll–Gladstone Controversy Colonel Ingersoll on Christianity. | Vol. 6 | 1888 |
| Rome or Reason A reply to Cardinal Manning. | Vol. 6 | 1888 |
| The Divided Household of Faith Essay. | Vol. 11 | 1888 |
| Huxley and Agnosticism On Thomas Henry Huxley and the coinage of the word. | Vol. 11 | 1889 |
| A Reply to Bishop Spalding On God in the Constitution. | Vol. 11 | 1890 |
| God in the Constitution Against the proposed "Christian nation" amendment. | Vol. 11 | 1890 |
| The Jews Against anti-Semitism. | Vol. 11 | 1890 |
| A Christmas Sermon Published in the Evening Telegram, December 19, 1891. | Vol. 7 | 1891 |
| A Few Reasons for Doubting the Inspiration of the Bible Essay. | Vol. 11 | 1891 |
| Unitarian Club Dinner After-dinner address. | Vol. 12 | 1891 |
| What I Want for Christmas A Christmas essay. | Vol. 11 | 1891 |
| An Essay on Christmas Essay. | Vol. 11 | 1892 |
| Ernest Renan A tribute on the death of the historian of the life of Jesus. | Vol. 11 | 1892 |
| The Agnostic Christmas On keeping Christmas without the supernatural. | Vol. 11 | 1892 |
| Thomas Paine (Magazine Article) A magazine article. | Vol. 11 | 1892 |
| What Infidels Have Done On the infidels' share in the world's progress. | Vol. 11 | 1892 |
| Crumbling Creeds On the quiet collapse of orthodoxy. | Vol. 11 | 1893 |
| Vivisection Against cruelty to animals in the name of science. | Vol. 11 | 1893 |
| A Reply to Rev. John Hall and Warner Van Norden On hungry cloakmakers and the Christianity of capital. | Vol. 7 | 1894 |
| About the Holy Bible Somebody ought to tell the truth about the Bible. | Vol. 3 | 1894 |
| Sabbath Superstition On the Sunday laws. | Vol. 12 | 1894 |
| Voltaire The infidels of one age have often been the aureoled saints of the next. | Vol. 3 | 1894 |
| The Foundations of Faith A systematic examination of the creed. | Vol. 4 | 1895 |
| How to Reform Mankind There is no darkness but ignorance. | Vol. 4 | 1896 |
| The Religious Belief of Abraham Lincoln Letter to Mr. Seip, New York, May 28, 1896. | Vol. 12 | 1896 |
| A Thanksgiving Sermon Many ages ago our fathers were living in dens and caves. | Vol. 4 | 1897 |
| Governor Rollins' Fast-Day Proclamation Reply to the Governor of New Hampshire. | Vol. 11 | 1898 |
| Jesus Christ An unfinished lecture, begun a few days before Ingersoll's death. | Vol. 12 | 1899 |
| The Devil If the Devil should die would God make another? | Vol. 4 | 1899 |
| What Is Religion? Ingersoll's last public address. | Vol. 4 | 1899 |