“As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.” MenWorldHas BeensChristianStrongSidesNumbersChristianitySeriousBalanceEvidenceConvincedLawyerBelieverFavorsFirmGreat MenConsiderationBiasAccustomedNewtonInfidelIsaacRecluse Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.” IfsSeemsSchoolChristianAtheismWorshipDeserveConvictionPositive AtheismFirmSundayAbsurdityChristian FaithSunday SchoolChristian GodGroveling Author:H. L. Mencken
“The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.” HappensChristianReligiousViewsPrinciplesIssuesOne ThingMediaFirmException Author:Francis Schaeffer