“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe”
Thomas Paine
“To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.”
John Locke
“There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.”
Ray Charles
“In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.”
Thomas Erskine
“The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act”
“Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities”
“The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.”
Vance Havner