I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible.
Bible Quotes
The Bible was a collection of books written at different times by different men – a strange mixture of diverse human documents – and a tissue of irreconcilable notions. Inspired? The Bible is not even intelligent. It is not even good craftsmanship, but is full of absurdities and contradictions.
If you take the cruel passages, the verses that inculcate eternal hatred, verses that writhe and hiss like serpents, you can make a creed that would shock the heart of a hyena. It may be that no book contains better passages than the New Testament, but certainly no book contains worse. Below the blossom of […]
Do not be frightened from this enquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it ends in a belief that there is no god, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its’ exercise, and the love of others which it will procure you. If you find reason to […]
Remember that millions of Christians still base their belief in a God upon the words of the Bible, which is a collection of the most flabbergasting fictions ever imagined – by men, too, who had lawless but very poor and crude imagination. Ingersoll and numerous other critics have shot the Christian holy book full of […]
Did these words come from the heart of love? — “When the Lord thy God shall drive them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, or show mercy unto them.” “I will heap mischief upon them. I will send mine arrows upon them; they shall […]
No one has an idea really of where we should draw the line. What about the Bible? It is between fifty and sixty years since I read the Apocalypse, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac.
The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.
It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind; and yet among them is not found Thou shalt believe The Bible.
Perhaps the problem is that Bibles are soaked in LSD before distribution. The more pages turned, the more it seeps into fingers and into the brain causing all sorts of silliness. So get LSD out of the Bible and onto album jackets where it belongs.
