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“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.”

“A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.”

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.”

Ifs Way Certain Religion Accepting Moral Impossible Twenties Behave Breakfast Ethical Aesthetic Transformed Propositions Alchemy

Author:Karen Armstrong

“religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.”

Needs Humans Religion Enemy Impossible Worst Inevitable Creeds Indifferent Worst Enemy Guise Human Needs Revulsion

Author:Georgia Harkness

“When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.”

Seems Religion Jesus Christ Impossible Failing Jesus Christ Crosses Woods Firm Floats Stand Firm When All Else Fails

Author:Marie Leszczynska

“It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.”

Source: The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

“God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.”

Would Be Religion Faith Belief Impossible Ignorance Built Definitions Have Faith

Book:More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality

Source: More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality

“We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.”

Way Heart Christian Religion Order Prayer Our Lives Impossible Praying One Way Intercession Answers To Prayer

Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].

“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.”

Men Believe Religion Impossible Agnosticism Improbable

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.”

Religion Church Religious Impossible Atheism Remains Atheist Absurd Secular Agnostic Miraculous Vacuums Unreasonable There Is No God Atheistic If There Is A God There Being No God

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.”