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Church

«The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church»
«We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides»
«The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts»
«Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?»
«The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.»
«The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.»
«The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction»
«The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery»
«The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory»
«The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts»

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