In the nineteenth century the agnostic Robert G. Ingersoll wrote '' ... that all the ignorant , infamous , heartless , hideous things recorded in the ` inspired ' Pentateuch are not the words of God , but simply ` Some Mistakes of Moses ' '' . In the 19th century the agnostic Robert G. Ingersoll wrote '' ... that all the ignorant , infamous , heartless , hideous things recorded in the ` inspired ' Pentateuch are not the words of God , but simply ` Some Mistakes of Moses ' '' .