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Robert Green Ingersoll quotesLet us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Mark Twain quotesThere was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg quotesTheologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
Denis Diderot quotesOnly a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Desiderius Erasmus quotesIt's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Henry Louis Mencken quotesTheology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Henry Ward Beecher quotesTheology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
W. H. Auden quotesDogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
Henry Ward Beecher quotesTheology is a science of mind applied to God.