“In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.”
Thomas Erskine
“Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities”
Thomas Paine
“The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act”
“The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.”
John Locke
“The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation”
“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