LouInSD
Veteran
Location: San Diego CA USA
| I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absented myself from Christian assemblies.
- Benjamin Franklin, Toward The Mystery.
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
- Benjamin Franklin, from Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion, 1728
The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, 1758
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny.
- George Washington, to United Baptists Churches of Virginia, May, 1789 from The Washington papers edited by Saul Padover]
The Christian god can be easily pictured as virtually the same as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of the people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to his nephew, Peter Carr
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
- Thomas Jefferson
Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies.
--- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.
- John Adams
Among the most detestable villains in history, you could not find one worse than Moses. Here is an order, attributed to 'God' to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers and to debauch and rape the daughters. I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book (the Bible).
- Thomas Paine
It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
- Thomas Paine
The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
- Abraham Lincoln
My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
-Abraham Lincoln, letter to Judge J.S. Wakefield, |
