Ah, the Bible, the holy scriptures of Christianity. Revered by so many, but turned off so many too. These are some of my favorite quotes about the Bible:
If
your Bible is an argument for the degradation of woman, and the abuse
by whipping of little children, I advise you to put it away, and use
your common sense instead.
--Lucy
N. Colman (The Truth Seeker, March 5, 1887)
So
the choice before us is simple: we can either have a 21st century
conversation about ethics—availing ourselves of all the arguments
and scientific insights that have accumulated in the last 2,000 years
of human discourse—or we can confine ourselves to a first century
conversation as it is preserved in the bible.
--Sam
Harris in
his response to readers & criticisms
No
man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always
convinced that it says what he means.
--George
Bernard Shaw
According
to the Bible, God had never revealed himself to these people and he
knew that without a revelation they could not know that he was the
true God. Whose fault was it then that they were heathen?
--Robert
G. Ingersoll "Why I am an Agnostic" (1896)
"There
was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small
budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but
one-- the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong
and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the
procession-- at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the
Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all."
--"Mark
Twain and the Three R's, by Maxwell Geismar, p.109
"The
Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments
to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love
heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision."
--Lynn
Lavner
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