One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did w….

Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for un….

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination..

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellec….

During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a ch….

My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altr….

One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and the Establish….

This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sym….

It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Chr….

There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated with Je….

I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled or conceal….

It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much ….

There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more in….