There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread and unchallenged ignorance to sustain their claims to power. Both are doomed as viable alternatives for the long- range future of anyone.

Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.