The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, read more

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian read more

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to read more

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time read more

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.

And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.