That book (Bible), sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.
Bible Quotes
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 […]
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.
