Bases Quote by Dennis Prager

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress…

— Bertrand Russell

“All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for granted that our morals and our…

— Karla Perry

I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I feel quite…

— Emma Thompson

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

— Richard Rorty

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality…

— Steven Pinker

It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite…

— Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

“If the Bible and other holy books were at all reliable sources of morality, good and bad religious people wouldn’t both be able to…

— David Silverman

“Also, the Christian worldview has made foundational contributions to our own culture that may not be readily apparent. The deep background for our work,…

— Timothy Keller

You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've…

— Doug Graham

“Moralizing is reading the Bible not to learn about Jesus but only to learn principles for how to live life as a good person…

— Mark Driscoll