About Quote by David Harsanyi

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

— Thomas Paine

“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,…

— Richard Dawkins

“It's good to have these stories in our holy books, to remind us that they were written by humans. Filthy-minded, morally ambiguous humans.”

— Suzanne Morrison

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

— James Rollins

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

— Baal Shem Tov

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive…

— Timothy Keller

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology…

— Richard Dawkins

“There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil…

— Ian Fleming

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

— William Styron

“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón