One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Contradict Quotes
The Bible is not even intelligent. It is not even good craftsmanship, but is full of absurdities and contradictions.
The case, however, is that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe, that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory, can be his work. I can write a better book myself.
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the […]
