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It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty.
Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.
More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality (1993)
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One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.
Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality (1990)
God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.
More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality (1993)
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Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.
Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio: Raising Standards of Popular Culture (2001)
No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible.
More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality (1993)
Sports fans, I have the final score for you on the big game between Harvard and William & Mary. It is: Harvard 14, William 12, Mary 6.
There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lightning, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.
Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality (1990)
To those who wish to punish others — or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters into their own hands — the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.
Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality (1990)