Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't read more

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on read more

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the read more

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the read more

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.