Joseph McCabe

“No pope ever condemned slavery.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“The absence of theistic bel”

“Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.”

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