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“If you pick out the proper verses of the Bible and interpret them with sufficient ingenuity, you can maintain that the Bible says for instance, that “Let there be light” is the theological translation of “big bang,” and that six days is not very different from fifteen billion years and you can freely state that the latest astronomical theories support Genesis.
What characterizes the value of science is not the particular conclusions it comes to. What characterizes the value of science is its methodology, the system it uses to arrive at those conclusions.
A hundred sages, though speaking ever so wisely, can neveroffer anything more persuasive than an imperative “Believe!”Since human beings can be found to believe each of the hundred sages, there are endless quarrels over points of doctrine, and people have hated vigorously in the name of love and have murdered enthusiastically in the name of peace.”
- Isaac Asimov
“Every religion must be tried at the bar of human justice, and stand or fall by the verdict there. It has no right to crouch behind the theory of “inspiration” and demand immunity from criticism. And yet that is just what every one of them does. They all claim that we have no right to use our reason on their inventions.
But evil cannot be made good by revelation, and good cannot be made evil by persecution.” - Helen H. Gardener
“What question was ever settled by the Bible? What question of theology or any other department?
The human mind is greater than any book. The mind sits in judgment on every book. If there be truth in the book, we take it; if error, we discard it. Why refer this to the Bible?
In this country, the Bible has been used to support slavery and capital punishment; while in the old countries, it has been quoted to sustain all manner of tyranny and persecution. All reforms are anti-Bible.”
- William Lloyd Garrison
Alice Hubbard, feminist freethinker, activist and author.
Why doesn’t the Bible say anything about electricity, about DNA, or about the actual age and size of the universe? What about a cure for cancer? Millions of people are dying horribly from cancer at this very moment, many of them children. When we fully understand the biology of cancer, this understanding will surely be reducible to a few pages of text. Why aren’t these pages, or anything remotely like them, found in the Bible? The Bible is a very big book. There was room for God to instruct us on how to keep slaves and sacrifice a wide variety of animals. Please appreciate how this looks to one who stands outside the Christian faith. It is genuinely amazing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.Why doesn’t the Bible say anything about electricity, about DNA, or about the actual age and size of the universe? What about a cure for cancer? Millions of people are dying horribly from cancer at this very moment, many of them children. When we fully understand the biology of cancer, this understanding will surely be reducible to a few pages of text. Why aren’t these pages, or anything remotely like them, found in the Bible?
The Bible is a very big book. There was room for God to instruct us on how to keep slaves and sacrifice a wide variety of animals. It is genuinely amazing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
-Sam Harris
God behaves like a strange king who wanted to test the obedience of his subjects on ridiculous things, and who punished them afterward well beyond their crimes.
If only Adam and Eve had been punished, one could strive to save the conduct of God from the reproach of malignity and injustice.
But it is claimed that the entire race of men was cursed for this mistake, and that we all carry the burden of Adam’s sin, a burden that is no less than our eternal damnation.
- Émilie du Châtelet
Helen Gardener, so bloody brilliant.
