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.

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 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

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

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 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.

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.