Mistakes of Ingersoll and His Answers

This book contains a debate between Robert Green Ingersoll, a prominent 19th-century American agnostic lecturer, and J. B. McClure, with a rebuttal by Rabbi Wise of Cincinnati, Ohio. Published around 1879, it represents a notable early example of a public intellectual exchange in the United States involving a prominent atheist and a well-known Jewish religious figure. The book includes Ingersoll's lecture and the responses from McClure and Rabbi Wise.

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• WISE, RABBI

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• Atheism
• Debates and debating
• Religion
• Free thought
• Christianity

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