(99 quotes found)
“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
“Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?”
Edward O. Wilson
“A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution (the University of Virginia)”
Thomas Jefferson
“Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings of the world”
Thomas Kempis
“Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.”
Bill Clinton
“The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.”
Mikhail Bakunin
“What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love between sexes is a sin in theology, a forbidden intercourse in jurisprudence, a mechanical insult in medicine, and a subject philosophy has no time for.”
Karl Kraus
“Most people think there is a God, but God is not what most people think.”
Rain Bojangles
