The Ameliorating March Of The Last Few

Atheists Would Teach Men To Be Moral Now, Not Because God Offers As An Inducement Reward By And By, But Because In The Virtuous Act Itself Immediate Good Is Insured To The Doer And The Circle Surrounding Him.

Will Any One, Save The Most Bigoted, Contend, That It Is Not Certain Gain To Humanity To Spread Unbelief In The Terrible Doctrine That Eternal Torment Is The Probable Fate Of The Great Majority Of The Human Family?

Idle And Meaningless ... A Form Less Solemn To Me Than The Affirmation I Would Have Reverently Made.

Liberty's Chief Foe Is Theology.

A Ground Frequently Taken By Christian Theologians Is That The Progress And Civilization Of The World Are Due To Christianity; And The Discussion Is Complicated By The Fact That Many Eminent Servants Of Humanity Have Been Nominal Christians, Of One Or Other Of The Sects. My Allegation Will Be That The Special Services Rendered To Human Progress By These Exceptional Men Have Not Been In Consequence Of Their Adhesion To Christianity, But In Spite Of It, And That The Specific Points Of Advantage To Human Kind Have Been In Ratio Of Their Direct Opposition To Precise Biblical Enactments.