“The time has come to abolish the twentieth-century fad for intelligent moral debate and get back to using fragments of ancient scripture to brainwash the vulnerable and confused into holding primitive, irrational prejudices!”
Anon.
“Questions about God's existence or non-existence are irrelevant: In our daily lives, what would we do differently if we knew one way or another?”
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child-mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after-years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you can not get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”
Hypatia370 – 415 CE
“How does it advance our understanding of the universe to suppose that it was created by a supernatural being who communicates only through the one-way process of revelation?”
“Why would God choose Sons and Prophets to send us mediocre messages in scriptures that were written thousands of years ago? If God wanted to speak to us He would appear during football games, tennis matches and speak to us directly, each one of us, in a language we could all understand.”
Anon.