Abhorrence Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“That the Old Testament represents God chiefly as angry Judge and vicious Warrior is a false stereotype. While these images are not absent, they…

— Ellen F. Davis

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving…

— Richard Dawkins

“With all due respect to the religions of the world, there is no other story like the Christian story. The god who thunders, the…

— Fleming Rutledge

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we…

— Meher Baba

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content…

— Henry David Thoreau

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction...

— Richard Dawkins

“There is in all humans, however, a desire and a deeply felt duty to worship a more intimate God,”

— Walter Isaacson

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to…

— Steven Pinker

“The nature of God’s love for us is outrageous. Why doesn’t this God of ours display some taste and discretion in dealing with us?…

— Brennan Manning

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine…

— Henry David Thoreau