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hallq · 03-02-2006, 05:00 PM

I'm currently at work on writing a parody of a religious tract - people pushing tracts show up weekly on the streets of my city, I want to return the favor. I'm having the most trouble comming up with quotes to support the following statement:

"WILL YOU BELIEVE? That NO BOOK is infallible?"

Of course, a quick quotation of contradicting bible verses would work well, but I'd like quotes from famous freethinkers, to stay within the style (of replacing Bible quotes with such quotes.)

Toto · 03-02-2006, 11:01 PM

I'd recommend looking for quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Robert Ingersoll. A good source is www.positiveatheism.org

If you're in Madison, The Freedom from Religion Foundation has some ready made tracts. I think you can find them or buy them from www.ffrf.org

Toto · 03-02-2006, 11:07 PM

Some Mistakes of Moses

Quote:

FOR many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts. To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired men; that slavery, polygamy, wars of conquest and extermination were right, and that there was a time when men could win the approbation of infinite Intelligence, Justice, and Mercy, by violating maidens and by butchering babes. To me it seemed more reasonable that savage men had made these laws; and I endeavored in a lecture, entitled "Some Mistakes of Moses," to point out some of the errors,contradictions, and impossibilities contained in the Pentateuch.

Quote:

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

jjramsey · 03-03-2006, 05:52 AM

From a recent book, The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously:

Quote:

As for divine origins, well let's just say that it might be an act of grace to not ascribe various books of the Hebrew Bible to God or the Holy Spirit. For if those texts were indeed written, dictated, or inspired by a heavenly author, then His literary competence, not to mention His sanity, would frequently be questioned.

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hallq Regular Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Madison, Wisconsin Posts: 204	Snappy quotes on errancy I'm currently at work on writing a parody of a religious tract - people pushing tracts show up weekly on the streets of my city, I want to return the favor. I'm having the most trouble comming up with quotes to support the following statement: "WILL YOU BELIEVE? That NO BOOK is infallible?" Of course, a quick quotation of contradicting bible verses would work well, but I'd like quotes from famous freethinkers, to stay within the style (of replacing Bible quotes with such quotes.)

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Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	I'd recommend looking for quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Robert Ingersoll. A good source is www.positiveatheism.org If you're in Madison, The Freedom from Religion Foundation has some ready made tracts. I think you can find them or buy them from www.ffrf.org

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