The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own