God II

"It is absurd to call him a God of justice and goodness, who inflicts evil indiscriminately on the good and the wicked, upon the innocent and the guilty. It is idle to demand the the unfortunate should console themselves for their misfortunes in the very arms of the one who alone is the author of them." - Jean Mislier, Susperstition of all Ages, pub. by Voltaire

"The Judaical and Christian theology shows us a partial God who chooses or rejects, who loves or hates, according to caprice; in short, a tyrant who plays with his creatures; who punishes in the world the whole human species for the crimes of a single man; who predestines the greater number of mortals to be his enemies, to the end that he may punish them to all eternity, for having received from him the liberty of declaring against him." - Denis Diderot, footnote to d'Holbach's The System of Nature, pub. 1770

"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties." - James Madison

"God Himself has no right to be a tyrant." - William Godwin, Sketches of History, pub. 1784

"No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible." - Steve Allen, More Steve Allen, on the Bible

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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