What we all need to do is return to the Bible afresh – not going to it to prove a point, but seeing what it says as the Holy Spirit opens our eyes.
Bible Quotes
The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.
That book (Bible), sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people.
To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
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 […]
