Atrocities Quote by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat…

— Ambrose Bierce

“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 peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

— Samuel Johnson

“Although they never can fall from the state of justification, yet they may, by their sins, fall under God’s fatherly displeasure, and not have…

— Wayne A. Grudem

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously…

— Martin Luther

“The Finality. In historical polemics this feature of the atonement has been urged against the Romish doctrine of the sacrifice of the mass. This…

— John Murray

“Arminianism teaches that all humans are born morally and spiritual depraved, and helpless to do anything good or worthy in God’s sight without a…

— Roger E. Olson

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

— John Newton

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

— Walter Lippmann

There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Pure religion and undefiled, before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself…

— John Bunyan

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being…

— Thomas Jefferson