You wonder how I can be wicked enough to attack the Bible. I will tell you: This book, the Bible, has persecuted, even unto death the wisest and the best. This book stayed and stopped the onward movement of the human race. This book poisoned the fountains of learning and misdirected the energies of man. […]

The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.

The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.

To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

If you take the cruel passages, the verses that inculcate eternal hatred, verses that writhe and hiss like serpents, you can make a creed that would shock the heart of a hyena. It may be that no book contains better passages than the New Testament, but certainly no book contains worse. Below the blossom of […]

Did these words come from the heart of love? — “When the Lord thy God shall drive them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, or show mercy unto them.” “I will heap mischief upon them. I will send mine arrows upon them; they shall […]

It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind; and yet among them is not found Thou shalt believe The Bible.

It (The Bible) has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge.