love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.