Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.