“‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.”

“I studied every page of this book, and I didn’t find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.”

“If God is for us, who can be against us?”

“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”

“Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way”

“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”

“Matthew 10:34“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

“To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and ‘improved’ by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries”

“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ”

“I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”

“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”