If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good..

If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If ….

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia..

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - lik….

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present..

In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the Old Testament. It is only when we ….

Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that….

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy..

I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believ….

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book..

One man in the right will finally get to be a majority..

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody..

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased).

The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. Th….

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth..

Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things….

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignor….

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death..

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment..

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erec….

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead..