Amount Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“[Holy ridicule] does not mock the serious things of life, but rather people who take themselves too seriously--not God, but man's ecclesiastical idols; not…

— Harry Boonstra

“Holy’ is a word used to conceal a great deal of nonsense,” Blasphet said. “If we disregard the evidence of our senses, won’t that…

— James Maxey

Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the…

— Pope Pius IV

The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty…

— Bertrand Russell

You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your…

— Frederick The Great

This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking…

— Meister Eckhart

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid…

— Thomas Paine

“Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely…

— Richard Rohr

“We have no way to quantify the damage done by telling tens of millions of children that masturbation will make them blind, or that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.”

— Richard Dawkins

Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure, Christians must…

— J.P. Moreland