I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share
I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel.… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share
Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
