Joseph McCabe Quotes
- The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about…
- A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of…
- The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
- The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the…
- I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality. On Christmas Eve…
- Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms
- The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
- No pope ever condemned slavery.
- I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years,…
- An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
- Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
- Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the…