Atmosphere Quote by Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

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

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it...

— Richard Dawkins

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

“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

“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

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago,…

— David Plotz

Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a…

— Patti Smith

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

— John Quincy Adams

If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible.…

— Russell Crowe