“ Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
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“ Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. ”
- Karl Barth- Copy
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“ The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. ”
- Jeremy Taylor- Copy
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“ As the grace grows nearer, my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost. ”
- Henry Benjamin Whipple- Copy
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“ If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. ”
- John Burroughs- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
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“ We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and astronomy without mathematics, or exact iron-making without chemistry. ”
- John Hall- Copy
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“ A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution (the University of Virginia). ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are "shaggy dog" stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
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“ Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. ”
- G. C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its) — Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world — a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious — surely never again to set… ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all? ”
- Richard Dawkins- Copy
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“ I cannot accept as final any theory which is not provable. The theories of the theologians cannot be proved. Proof, proof! That is what I always have been after; that is what my mind requires before it can accept a theory as fact. Some things are provable, some things disprovable, some things are doubtful… ”
- Thomas Edison- Copy
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“ Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons. ”
- Jonathan Miller- Copy
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“ It is a curious accident of history that the Christian religion became heavily involved with theology. No other religion finds it necessary to formulate elaborately precise statements about the abstract qualities and relationships of gods and humans.… ”
- Freeman Dyson- Copy
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“ I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua 10:13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm 104:5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory. ”
- Alan Turing- Copy
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“ This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before. ”
- Karl Barth- Copy
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“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ Not one of all the gods of all the various theologies has ever really been proved. We accept no ordinary scientific fact without the final proof; why should we, then, be satisfied in this most mighty of all matters, with a mere theory? ”
- Thomas Edison- Copy
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“ All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass — "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. ”
- Archibald Alexander- Copy
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“ A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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