People justify all kinds of tyranny toward children upon the ground that they are totally depraved. At the bottom of ages of cruelty lies this infamous doctrine of total depravity. Religion contemplates a child as a living crime - heir to an infinite curse - doomed to eternal fire.
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Some argue moral guidance requires acknowledging human flaws.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Personally, I care nothing about names. It makes no difference to me what the supposed great men of the past have said, except as what they have said contains …
Only a few years ago there was a great awakening of the human mind. Men began to inquire by what right a crowned robber made them work for him? The man who ask…
It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.[2]
'I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother …
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem - for purely religious purposes, of course - to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.