dear-ones

Updated: May 4, 2025

Then was this mead-house at morning tide dyed with gore, when the daylight broke, all the boards of the benches blood-besprinkled, gory the hall: I had heroes the less, doughty dear-ones that death had reft. But sit to the banquet, unbind thy words, hardy hero, as heart shall prompt thee."

- Beowulf

My objection to the Christian religion is that it destroys human love, and tells you and me that the love of your dear-ones is not necessary in this world to make a heaven in the next. No matter about your wife, your children, your brother, your sister no matter about all the affections of the human heart when you get there you will be alone with the angels.

Robert Green Ingersoll - Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest