"Would an infinitely wise, good, and powerful God, intending to produce man, commence with the lowest possible forms o…"

"In nature I see, or seem to see, good and evil—intelligence and ignorance—goodness and cruelty—care and carelessness—…"

"Do away with the miracles, and the superhuman character of Christ is destroyed. He becomes what he really was—a man. …"

"There is one wonderful thing about the dead people that were raised—we do not hear of them any more. What became of t…"

"Stories that made Christianity powerful then, weaken it now."

"If Christ wished to convince his fellow-men by miracles, why did he not do something that could not by any means have…"

"The Christians mistake an incident for a cause, and honestly imagine that the Bible is the foundation of modern liber…"

"Rome had no Bible. God cared nothing for the Roman Empire. He let the men come up by chance. His time was taken up wi…"

"The resurrection. I want to speak about it as we would about any ordinary transaction. In the first place, I do not b…"

"Besides, God may have changed his mind on many things; he has on slavery, and polygamy at least, according to the chu…"