Was Robert Ingersoll an atheist or an agnostic?
In his "Why I Am An Agnostic" lecture from 1896, he has this absolutely brilliant, agnostic expression:
"We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know."
But within the same lecture, he also says some things which are rather more like a very certain atheist and less like an agnostic notion of "without certainty or knowledge":
"For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain --appreciated "the glad tidings of great joy." For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God."
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