Question. Is the Bible true? Answer. "Ingersoll is very fond of
saying 'The question is not, is the Bible inspired, but is it true?'
That sounds very plausible, but you know as applied to any ancient book
it is simply nonsense."
Q. Do you think the stories in the Bible exaggerated? A. "I dare say
the numbers are immensely exaggerated."
Q. Do you think that God upheld polygamy? A. "The truth of which
simply is, that four thousand years ago polygamy existed among the
Jews, as everywhere else on earth then, and even their prophets did not
come to the idea of its being wrong. But what is there to be indignant
about in that? And so you really wonder why any man should be
indignant at the idea that God upheld and sanctioned that beastliness
called polygamy? What is there to be indignant about in that?"