The vast majority of people are bible illiterates. They only hear the palatable verses from the pulpit and blindly accept that the bible emanates goodness and is the word of God. Any honest, thinking person reading through the bible cannot ignore the blatant misogyny...
The Catholic Inquisition was set up by the 4th Lateran Council in 1215 A.D. by Pope Gregory 9th to institutionalise what had been going on for years. It was handed over in 1232 to the Dominicans (Domini canes “the hounds of the Lord”), the Papal secret...
In early March 1991 a major church college invited the President to address a large class of students in the 12-16 age group on the above subject. The time allotted was a mere 20 minutes of which half was given to questions and answers. This was hardly sufficient to...
Christianity is based entirely on the Bible and the Bible is predominantly mythical and imaginary. The fourth word in the Bible is ‘God’ with an upper case ‘G’ and nowhere is there any substantive argument for his existence. Until factual proof for the...
Some think that all the Bible says about circumcision is to order it to be done. Not so! The Bible makes it clear that circumcision only applied to Jews, to their slaves and to converts to Judaism (Gen. 17:10-14, Exod. 12:48). All other peoples were described as...
Question: What did Judas betray?Answer: Why do you ask? Don’t you know? Jesus Christ for thirty pieces of silver. That much we know well. This is the immediate and thoughtless answer, given blindly. We have surely not asked why he perpetrated the betrayal, even...
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
Ilka Chase
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.
Cardinal Robert Bellarmine
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.
