Abolish Quote by Thomas Paine

“Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of ancient mythologists, accomodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and yet it remains to…

— Thomas Paine

“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs,…

— Emil Cioran

“Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a religion', nor…

— C.S. Lewis

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring…

— Karen Armstrong

“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience:…

— Daniel Waterman

“Our cultural debt to the idolatry of pagan Egypt was largely expunged from history by Christian revisionists.”

— Philip Meggs

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need…

— Emil Cioran

“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth…

— Edward Clodd

“For centuries after obtaining power during the reign of Constantine, Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy of the…

— D.M. Murdock

“For it is the fate of every myth to creep by degrees into the narrow limits of some alleged historical reality, and to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination alone; in…

— G.K. Chesterton