“It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.” MenHas BeensMadeRealEndsSeemsPainLyingBeliefChristianityEnemyImpossibleTruth IsEternalWorshipInfiniteHungerRevengePunishmentCivilizedContemptDogmaTestamentNew TestamentMaliceOld TestamentAbhorrence Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing Grace" without reminding yourself that the reason God's grace is amazing is it saves a wretch like you. This self-denigration stuff - Jesus died for my sins - is nothing but a guilt message. That's the thing we've got to get out from under. That's not Christianity. That's sort of fourth-century Christianity that got turned into doctrines and dogmas that we've never been able to escape.” SelfReasonAbleJesusStuffChurchSinChristianityGraceCenturyLike YouPrayingTenMessagesMercyDiedGuiltDoctrineFourthDogmaFifteenRemindingGod's GraceAmazing GraceReminding Yourself Author:John Shelby Spong
“The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.” PersonsChristianBeliefChristSimpleChristianityWiseInsightfulDogmaIntricateLabyrinthGateways Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.” GivingLongBookChristianReligiousChristianityAtheismBibleAtheistComplicatedPositive AtheismProfessionStatementsDogmaAgnosticFounding Fathers ChristianFounding Fathers ReligionFounding Fathers Anti ReligionTheistChristianity From Founding FathersChristian AtheistAgainst ReligionFree Thinkers Author:Abraham Lincoln
“The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.” ThinkingGivingLongBookChristianPresidentLibertyChristianityBibleComplicatedStatementsDogmaIntriguingPhilosophy Of ReligionReligious PhilosophyChristian AtheistPhilosophy And ReligionReligious Dogma Author:Abraham Lincoln
“I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.” WorldMindMeanReligionBeliefSocialChristianityVirtueHabitIntegrityBenefitsIntellectualEvidenceImportanceLeavingOrganizedDogmaUnderestimatedUndecided Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959 Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?” IfsFirstsUseChristianChurchExistenceChristianityDevilSatanDogmaPope Author:H. P. Blavatsky