I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather e….

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance..

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end..

The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you….

The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay an….

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed..

The Bible is full of dreadful things. There's a Psalm that says "Happy will you be when you take your enemy's children and dash their heads against t….

True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery o….

All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on ….

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep wom….

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all….

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural in….

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference..

Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to tran….

God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to t….

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God..

I could not believe that anyone who has read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in every literal word was the divinely inspi….

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred wr….

I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as ….

I think if you're convinced that you're evil, and that God has had to rescue you, then the best you can be is grateful. But nobody ever loves the per….

A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of it….