The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

- Joseph Mccabe

Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th…

- Joseph Mccabe

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

- Joseph Mccabe

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

- Joseph Mccabe

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time…

- Joseph Mccabe

No pope ever condemned slavery.

- Joseph Mccabe

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defend…

- Joseph Mccabe

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1…

- Joseph Mccabe

Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only th…

- Joseph Mccabe