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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.
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.
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 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.
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
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
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.
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
