Home / Quotes / Quote by Gerry Spence

Quote by Gerry Spence

“Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma.”

Quote by Gerry Spence

Book:Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

Work

Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

Written as an owner's manual, this book presents a structured approach to personal development. It outlines seven fundamental steps that readers can follow to cultivate freedom in various aspects of their lives, including emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. The book aims to empower individuals to take control of their destinies and make informed choices. more

Author

Gerry Spence is an American lawyer renowned for his defense skills in criminal trials. Born on January 8, 1929, he is a widely influential figure in the legal community. more

You May Also Like

“Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?”

Men Children Ideas Religion Strong Clear Wife Return Ideals Biblical Testament Old Testament Evangelical Family Man Concubines

Author:Ira Reiss

“Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed polygamy was perfectly moral and he defied Twain to cite any passage of Scripture which forbade it. 'Well,' said Twain, 'how about that passage that tells us no man can serve two masters at the same time?'”

Men Wells Said Two Religion Easy Moral Masters Behavior Mark Scripture Passages Denied Biblical Polygamy Legitimacy Citing Well Said Two Masters

Author:Dennis McKinsey

“All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.”

Men Religion Christ Figures Example He Man Testament New Testament Old Testament

Book:The Woman's Bible

Source: The Woman's Bible

“The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.”

Shows Mother Religion Common New York Broken Higher Available Divorce Data Secular Belts Percentages Breakdown Massachusetts Oklahoma Arkansas Broken Family

Author:Joe Conason

“No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .”

Men World Believe Doe Whole Religion Youth Devil Stones Philosopher Whole World Vampire Fairy Fountain Mermaid Nymphs Fountain Of Youth Hydra

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.”

“The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.”

Whole Religion Records Century Organized Decent Intervals Organized Religion Disgraceful Primacy

Author:Joseph McCabe

“The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.”

Made Christian Religion Church Principles Conditions Style Bases Murder Salvation Pope Murderer Inquisition Christian Church

Author:Lord Acton

“I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry for all those inquisitions, crusades, and autos-da-fe. Previous popes were wrong - infallible, perhaps, but wrong.”

Trying Religion Church Decided Catholic Sorry Jew Newspapers Pope Catholic Church Infallible Crusades Inquisition

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the Church literally (and with breathtaking presumption) issued signed certificates specifying the number of days off that had been purchased. . . . And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history. . . .”

Used Religion Church Numbers Sells Tricks Selling Making Money Rip Indulgence Medieval Presumption Days Off Certificates Purgatory Breathtaking Remission Medieval Times

Author:Richard Dawkins