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

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?

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

Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings read more

Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings of the world

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.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.