Religion Quotes by Margaret E. Knight

I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled…

— Margaret E. Knight

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

— Margaret E. Knight

It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other…

— Margaret E. Knight

There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated with Jesus.…

— Margaret E. Knight

Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about…

— Margaret E. Knight

One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the…

— Margaret E. Knight

One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and…

— Margaret E. Knight

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual…

— Margaret E. Knight

There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far…

— Margaret E. Knight

This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy,…

— Margaret E. Knight

My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that…

— Margaret E. Knight

During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was…

— Margaret E. Knight

It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education…

— Margaret E. Knight