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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the read more
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't read more
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that read more
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on read more
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the read more
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism
What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth
What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
