We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and the New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.
Bible Quotes
I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible.
Compare all this ribaldry, blasphemously called the Word of God, with the Almighty power that created the universe, and whose eternal wisdom directs and governs all its mighty movements, and we shall be at a loss to find a name sufficiently contemptible for it.
As to the people called Christians, they have no evidence that their religion is true. There is no more proof that the Bible is the Word of God, than the Koran of Mohammed is the Word of God.
Nonsense ought to be treated as nonsense wherever it be found, and had this been done in the rational manner it ought to have been done, instead of intimating and mincing the matter as has been too much the case, the nonsense and false doctrine of the Bible, with all the aid that priestcraft can […]
Besides, the character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was the wretch that first began and carried on wars on the score or on the pretence of religion; and under that mask, or that infatuation, committed the most unexampled atrocities […]
As to the book called the Bible, it is blasphemy to call it the word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions, and a history of bad times and bad men. There are but a few good characters in the whole book.
They will now find that I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much worse books than I had conceived. If I have erred in any thing, in the former part of the Age of Reason, it has been by speaking better […]
A parable is an assault on the conventions, including the social, economic and mythic structures that people build for their own comfort and security. A parable is a story meant to subvert these structures and to suggest that the way of the kingdom is not the way of the world.
Great objects inspire great thoughts; great munificence excites great gratitude; but the groveling tales and doctrines of the Bible – are fit only to excite contempt… the stupid Bible of the church, that teaches man nothing.
