“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
“Alcohol may be man s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”
“The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”
“I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)”
“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
“To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and improved by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries”
“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
“Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.”
“My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.”
“...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.”
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“We have never heard the devil s side of the story, God wrote all the book.”