In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and read more

In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the read more

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go read more

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.