Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
The absence of theistic belief...
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.
No pope ever condemned slavery.
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.