The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
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 […]
With regard to salvation in the gospel according to St. Matthew. (There is) not one word about believing the Old Testament to have been inspired; not one word about being baptized or joining a church; not one word about believing in any miracle; not even a hint that it was necessary to believe that Christ […]
Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the coiled form of superstition – then read the Holy Bible, and you will be […]
We have no falsehoods to defend We want the facts; Our force, our thought, we do not spend In vain attacks. And we will never meanly try To save some fair and pleasing lie. The simple truth is what we ask, Not the ideal; We’ve set ourselves the noble task To find the real. If […]
None of these gods could give a true account of the creation of this little earth. All were woefully deficient in geology and astronomy. As a rule, they were most miserable legislators, and as executives, they were far inferior to the average of American presidents.
What man, who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God? And yet, our entire system of religion is based upon that believe. The Jews pacified Jehovah with the blood of animals, and according to the Christian system, the blood of Jesus softened the heart of God a little, and rendered possible the salvation […]
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
