Quotes from Joseph McCabe

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

No pope ever condemned slavery.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.

The absence of theistic belief... { Defining the word 'atheism' }

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth — Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.

In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies...

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms