19 quotes
The more false we destroy the more room there will be for the true.
Orthodoxy (1884)
We are told “God so loved the world” that he is going to damn almost everybody.
Orthodoxy (1884)
One can hardly imagine how perfect a constitution it took a few years ago to stand the assault of a doctor.
Orthodoxy (1884)
And yet, here you have a work upholding slavery, and you say that it was written by an infinitely good God!
Orthodoxy (1884)
The church must not abandon its belief in devils. Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
Orthodoxy (1884)
No devil, no hell. No hell, no atonement. No atonement, no preaching, no gospel.
Orthodoxy (1884)
Stories that made Christianity powerful then, weaken it now.
Orthodoxy (1884)
Write the name of Charles Darwin on the one hand and the name of every theologian who ever lived on the other, and from that name has come more light to the world than from all of those.
Orthodoxy (1884)
He did not say to either Matthew, Mark, or Luke, or to any one in their hearing, that he was the Son of God, or that he was miraculously conceived. He did not say it.
Orthodoxy (1884)
For two hundred and seventy-eight years after the death of Copernicus the church insisted that his system was false, and that the old Bible astronomy was true.
Orthodoxy (1884)
This is all he says about the most wonderful vision that ever astonished human eyes, a miracle great enough to have stuffed credulity to bursting; and yet all we have is this one, poor, meagre verse.
Orthodoxy (1884)
Why should a Christian hesitate to kill a man that his God is waiting to damn? Why should a Christian pity an unbeliever—one who has rejected the Bible—when he knows that God will be pitiless forever?
Orthodoxy (1884)
Think of a love so limitless—stronger and deeper than despair and death! And yet, the Christian religion says, that if that woman, that mother, did not happen to believe in their creed God would send her soul to eternal fire!
Orthodoxy (1884)
In 1616 the system of Copernicus was condemned by the pope, by the infallible Catholic Church, and the church was about as near right upon that subject as upon any other.
Orthodoxy (1884)
Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
Orthodoxy (1884)
If Christ wished to convince his fellow-men by miracles, why did he not do something that could not by any means have been a counterfeit? Instead of healing a withered arm, why did he not find some man whose arm had been cut off, and make another grow?
Orthodoxy (1884)
Besides, God may have changed his mind on many things; he has on slavery, and polygamy at least, according to the church; and yet his church now wants to go and destroy polygamy in Utah with the sword. Why do they not send missionaries there with copies of the Old Testament?
Orthodoxy (1884)
A god that cannot make a soul that is not totally depraved, I respectfully suggest, should retire from the business. And if a god has made us, knowing that we are totally depraved, why should we go to the same being to be “born again?”
Orthodoxy (1884)
But they say he “permits” it. What for? So that we may have freedom of choice. What for? So that God may find, I suppose, who are good and who are bad. Did he not know that when he made us? Did he not know exactly just what he was making?
Orthodoxy (1884)