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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it read more
If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the read more
The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to read more
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected read more
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
